Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury

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Christopher Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, (born 24 July 1951) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington South and Finsbury from 1983 to 2005 and was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer in 2005 and became Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 2025. In 1984, Smith became the first openly gay male British MP and in 2005, the first MP to acknowledge that he is HIV positive. He served as Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge from 2015 to 2025 and was elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 2025.

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