Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury

The Right Honourable The Lord Smith of Finsbury PC
Official portrait, 2020
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport[a]
In office 2 May 1997 – 8 June 2001
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Virginia Bottomley
Succeeded by	Tessa Jowell
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed life peerage 18 July 2005
Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury
In office 9 June 1983 – 11 April 2005
Preceded by	George Cunningham
Succeeded by	Emily Thornberry
Shadow cabinet portfolios
1992–1994	Environment
1994–1995	National Heritage
1995–1996	Social Security
1996–1997	Health
Personal details
Born	(1951-07-24) 24 July 1951 (age 72) Barnet, United Kingdom
Political party	Independent (2008–present)[1] Labour (1979–2008)
Domestic partner(s)	Dorian Jabri (1989–2012)
Alma mater	Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA, PhD) Harvard University
Signature
Website	Official website

Christopher Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, PC (born 24 July 1951) is a British politician and a peer; a former Member of Parliament (MP) and Cabinet Minister; and former chairman of the Environment Agency. For the majority of his career he was a Labour Party member. He was the first openly gay male British MP, coming out in 1984, and in 2005, the first MP to acknowledge that he is HIV positive.^[2][3] Since 2015 he has been Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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