Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside

The Right Honourable The Lord Hughes of Woodside
Official portrait, 2018
Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
In office 4 November 1985 – 23 November 1988
Leader	Neil Kinnock
Preceded by	Gwyneth Dunwoody
Succeeded by	John Prescott
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
In office 11 March 1974 – 22 July 1975
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Hector Monro
Succeeded by	Frank McElhone
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 15 October 1997 – 7 January 2022 Life peerage
Member of Parliament for Aberdeen North
In office 18 June 1970 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by	Hector Hughes
Succeeded by	Malcolm Savidge
Personal details
Born	Robert Hughes (1932-01-03)3 January 1932 Aberdeen, Scotland
Died	7 January 2022(2022-01-07) (aged 90)
Political party	Labour

Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside (3 January 1932 – 7 January 2022) was a British Labour Party politician and life peer who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 27 years, and was also Chair of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) from 1976 until it was dissolved in 1995 after the ending of apartheid in South Africa.