Sophy Antrobus, Baroness Antrobus

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Antrobus
MBE
Official portrait, 2026
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage
28 January 2026
Personal details
PartyLabour
EducationKingston Grammar School, University of Cambridge

Sophy Antrobus, Baroness Antrobus (previously Gardner) MBE 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.[1] Under the previous name Sophy Gardner she was the Labour parliamentary candidate for Gloucester in the 2015 United Kingdom general election.[1]

She was a Senior Research Fellow and co-director of the Freeman Air and Space Institute (FASI) at King's College London,[2][3] a role she began in 2020.[4] 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.[5][6]

On 21 July 2026, she was appointed to the Burnham ministry as a Baroness in Waiting.[7] As a result of this, she stood down from leadership of FASI in favour of Julia Balm.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Gloucester CLP select their PPC". LabourList.org. 20 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Sophy Antrobus". www.rusi.org. Retrieved 2025-12-10.
  3. ↑ "Sophy Antrobus". King's College London. 2025-12-02. Archived from the original on 7 December 2025. Retrieved 2025-12-10.
  4. 1 2 "A new chapter for the Freeman Air & Space Institute". King's College London. 13 July 2026. Retrieved 2026-08-14.
  5. ↑ "Political Peerages December 2025". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2025-12-10.
  6. ↑ "No. 64981". The London Gazette. 3 February 2026. p. 1802.
  7. ↑ "Parliamentary career for Baroness Antrobus - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament". members.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
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