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{{Infobox Peer<br />
|name = The Lord Bagri<br />
|title = Baron Bagri<br />
|image = Raj Bagri, Baron Bagri.jpg<br />
|image_size =<br />
|caption =<br />
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|8|24|df=y}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kuthiala|first1=Tushaar|title=UK, India mourn the death of Indian-origin businessman Lord Raj Bagri|url=http://www.connectedtoindia.com/uk-india-mourn-the-death-of-indian-origin-businessman-lord-raj-bagri-1320.html|access-date=5 July 2017|work=Connected to India|date=28 April 2017}}</ref><br />
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2017|4|26|1930|8|24}}<br />
|death_place = [[London]], England<br />
|parents =<br />
|spouse = Usha Maheshwary<br />
|issue = 2<br />
|tenure = 14 February 1997 – 26 April 2017<br />
|other_titles =<br />
|heir =<br />
}}<br />
'''Raj Kumar Bagri, Baron Bagri''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}} (24 August 1930 – 26 April 2017) was an Indian-born British businessman and a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] member of the [[House of Lords]] from 1997 to 2010. He was made a [[life peer]] in 1997 under the title Baron Bagri, of Regent's Park in the City of Westminster.<ref>{{London Gazette | issue = 54685 |date = 20 February 1997|page= 2133}}</ref><ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page=219 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Raj Kumar Bagri was born on 24 August 1930 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) into a middle-class family. His father died when he was three, and age 15, his mother sent him to work as a clerk at for a metal distributor, part of the Binani family's industrial empire.<ref name="Asian Voice" /><br />
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==Career==<br />
[[File:THOMAS COCHRANE and DAVID EARL BEATTY - Hanover Lodge Outer Circle Regent's Park London NW1 4RJ (2).jpg|thumb|Hanover Lodge, Regent's Park, London]]<br />
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A businessman, Bagri was chairman of the [[London Metal Exchange]] until 2002. Bagri was a member of the advisory committee of [[The Prince's Trust]] and chairman of the Bagri Foundation. He was a governor of the [[University of London]]'s [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS).<ref>SOAS: [http://www.soas.ac.uk/directorate/soas2016/file23384.pdf "2016: A Vision and Strategy for the Centennial," p. 18.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604073116/http://www.soas.ac.uk/directorate/soas2016/file23384.pdf |date=4 June 2011 }}</ref><br />
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In 2012, Bagri sold [[Hanover Lodge]], "the UK’s most expensive home", to [[Andrey Goncharenko]] a Russian [[billionaire]], for £120 million.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}}<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
He was born in a [[Maheshwari]] [[Bania (caste)|Bania]]s (traders) caste <br />
in [[Bagri tribe]] of India. He married Usha Maheshwary in 1954 and they had son Apurv, who took over the running of Metdist, and daughter [[Amita Birla]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/05/01/lord-bagri-doyen-metal-traders-obituary/|title=Lord Bagri, doyen of metal traders – obituary |newspaper=The Telegraph|date=1 May 2017 |access-date=5 May 2017}}</ref><br />
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Bagri died in London on 26 April 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/raj-bagri-was-a-pillar-of-indian-community-in-uk/story-gTHgKm3TrU01SDd9xdQJcL.html |title=Raj Bagri was a pillar of Indian community in UK |newspaper=Hindustan Times |date=27 April 2016 |access-date=27 April 2017}}</ref><ref name="Asian Voice">{{cite news |title=Lord Bagri breathes his last |url=https://www.asian-voice.com/Community/Lord-Bagri-breathes-his-last |access-date=19 January 2021 |work=Asian Voice |date=28 April 2017}}</ref><br />
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==Honours and arms==<br />
===Honours===<br />
He was to the [[Order of the British Empire]] as a Commander (CBE) in the [[1995 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=53893 |date=31 December 1994 |page=8 |supp=y}}</ref> The [[1997 New Year Honours]] list announced that Bagri was to be raised to the peerage,<ref>Willcock, John. [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/peerage-hailed-as-spur-to-asian-businessmen-1316551.html "Peerage hailed as spur to Asian businessmen"] in ''The Independent'' (London) dated 31 December 1996</ref> and in February he was gazetted a [[life peer]] as '''Baron Bagri''', ''of [[Regent's Park]] in the [[City of Westminster]]''.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=54685 |date=20 February 1997 |page=2133}}</ref> In 2010, following the enactment of the [[Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010|Constitutional Reform and Governance Act]], Bagri gave up his seat in the House of Lords in order to maintain his non-domiciled status for United Kingdom tax purposes.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10535852.stm |title=Tory donor Lord Ashcroft gives up non-dom tax status | work=BBC News | date=7 July 2010}}</ref><br />
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===Coat of arms===<br />
{{Infobox COA wide<br />
|image = Arms of Bagri.svg<br />
|crest = Issuing from a Demi Kalasa Sable garnished Or a Lotus Flower also Or<ref name="burke"/><br />
|coronet = A [[Coronet|Coronet of a Baron]]<br />
|escutcheon = ''Per pale sable and gules six swordblades six swordblades three bend sinister issuant from the dexter three bendwise issuant from the sinister their points crossing in saltire or''<br />
|supporters = On either side an Elephant, the dexter Gules with Housings on the back and forehead Sable garnished tasselled and fringed Or the sinister Sable with like Housings Gules garnished tasselled and fringed Or each semy of Cinquefoils tusked and unguled Argent the tusks banded Or and holding aloft with the trunk a Lotus Flower slipped also Or<br />
|badge = Three Lotus Flowers in pairle slips outwards and conjoined to the Fimbriation Or of a Roundel Gules<br />
|motto = "Truth always triumphs"<br />
}}<br />
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[[Category:Conservative Party (UK) life peers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian peers]]<br />
[[Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire]]<br />
[[Category:British politicians of Indian descent]]<br />
[[Category:British Hindus|Bagrei, Rja]]<br />
[[Category:British businesspeople of Indian descent]]<br />
[[Category:People with non-domiciled status in the United Kingdom]]<br />
[[Category:Businesspeople from Kolkata]]<br />
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