Sophy Antrobus

Sophy Antrobus, Baroness Antrobus (previously Gardner) is a British historian, academic and retired military officer.

Life and career Privately educated at Putney High School and then Kingston Grammar School, Antrobus is a retired wing commander in the Royal Air Force.

She was a Senior Research Fellow and co-director of the Freeman Air and Space Institute (FASI) at King's College London, a role she began in 2020. She was nominated for a Labour life peerage as part of the 2025 Political Peerages; she was created as Baroness Antrobus, of Old Sarum in the County of Wiltshire on 28 January 2026.

On 21 July 2026, she was appointed to the Burnham ministry as a Baroness in Waiting. As a result of this, she stood down from leadership of FASI in favour of Julia Balm.