Parry Andrew Mitchell, Baron Mitchell is a British businessman and Labour member of the House of Lords. On 10 May 2000, Mitchell was created a life peer as Baron Mitchell, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden, and introduced in the House of Lords on 24 May 2000. Parry Mitchell holds a B.Sc from the University of London and an MBA from Columbia Business School New York. As a multi-faceted entrepreneur he founded, grew and subsequently sold, three international companies in the IT services sector: Standard Chartered Leasing Ltd; United Leasing plc and Syscap plc. Today his interest is in start-up companies. He is a director of an iPad App start up in Manhattan, called Zuse - a multitasking browser, and he is also chairman of Instant Impact, based in London. As a political entrepreneur he helped found the SDP in 1980 and stood twice for Parliament: in Ealing Acton and then in Salisbury. 

May 6th, 1943 in London (Age 81)