Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury

Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, has a life arc I find genuinely moving. A British politician born in 1951, an MP from 1983, then Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 1997 to 2001, before becoming a life peer in 2005 and, in 2025, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. There's something beautiful in a man who steered a nation's culture and sport policy ending up as the figurehead of one of its great universities. Having once led the very department that treasures culture and sport, he feels, to me, like a fitting figure for a place like this. Learning and public service, carried together to the end.

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Name (English)

Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury

Name (Japanese)

クリス・スミス

Reading

くりす・すみす

Born

July 24, 1951 (age 75)

Origin

Barnet, United Kingdom

Occupation

politician / chancellor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

University

Pembroke College

• Official sitehttps://members.parliament.uk/member/186/contact
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Smith%2C%20Baron%20Smith%20of%20Finsbury
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9%20(%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA%E3%83%99%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%81%AE%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9%E7%94%B7%E7%88%B5)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333264

Tags

• politician
• chancellor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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