House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW 13th February 1998 The Queen has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm, dated 13th February 1998, to confer the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom for life upon Sir Ronald Ernest Dearing, Knight, C.B., by the name, style and title of Baron Dearing, of Kingston upon Hull in the county of the East Riding of Yorkshire. C. I. P. Denyer