House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW 3rd August 1998 The Queen has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm, dated in the afternoon of 3rd August 1998, to confer the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom for life upon Nazir Ahmed, Esquire, by the name, style and title of Baron Ahmed, of Rotherham in the county of South Yorkshire. C. I. P. Denyer