Raymond Plant, Baron Plant of Highfield

Raymond Plant, Baron Plant of Highfield, (born 19 March 1945), is a British Labour peer and academic.

Life and works Lord Plant was educated at Havelock School in Grimsby, King's College London (BA Philosophy, 1966), and the University of Hull (PhD). He is Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy at King's College London and was previously Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, having previously served as Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford, from 1994 to 2000. He is an Honorary Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford. Before moving to Oxford he was Professor of European Political Thought at the University of Southampton, and prior to that was a Senior Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Manchester.

He was created a life peer on 24 July 1992 as Baron Plant of Highfield, of Weelsby in the County of Humberside, and was introduced to the House of Lords on 4 November. Plant was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2004 to 2007. In the Lords he was a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights and has been a member of the Government and Law Sub Committee of the Committee on the European Communities. He is the author of several books on political philosophy, and was formerly a lay canon at Winchester Cathedral.

Selected publications