Sonny Leong, Baron Leong Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Leong
Office:Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Term Start:31 October 2022
Life peerage
Birth Name:Sonny Leong
Party:Labour

Sonny Leong, Baron Leong, (born September 1953),[1] is a British Labour Party politician.

Career

Leong co-founded Cavendish Publishing in 1990.[2] The company made £250,000 in its first year.

In 2001, he was appointed managing director of Cavendish Publishing, with a 30-percent stake in the company.[3] By 2003, it was the largest independent law publisher in the United Kingdom.

In 2006, Leong sold Cavendish Publishing to Taylor & Francis.[4] He left Taylor & Francis in 2007 to join One Charter, a private jet business, as a non-executive director.

Formerly the Chair of Chinese for Labour,[5] [6] in October 2022, it was announced that he would receive a life peerage in the 2022 Special Honours.[7] On 31 October 2022, he was created Baron Leong, of Chilton in the County of Oxfordshire and of Camden Town in the London Borough of Camden.[8] [9]

Personal life

Leong and his wife, Gita, have a daughter, Sonya.[10] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for political service.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sonny LEONG . find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk . Companies House . 31 October 2022 . en.
  2. News: De Vita . Emma . April 2003 . Legally binding . 79 . . 14 October 2022 . . ProQuest.
  3. News: 21 September 2001 . Sonny Leong appointed to Cavendish board . . 14 October 2022. Gale OneFile.
  4. News: 2007 . Sonny Leong joins executive airline . . 14 October 2022. EBSCOHost.
  5. News: Leong . Sonny . 17 October 2013 . Don't kowtow for Chinese money . . London . 2022-10-14 . Gale OneFile.
  6. Web site: 7 March 2021 . Sonny Leong CBE . 14 October 2022 . SME4Labour.
  7. News: Political Peerages 2022 . 14 October 2022 . gov.uk . 14 October 2022.
  8. Web site: Crown Office The Gazette . 3 November 2022. www.thegazette.co.uk.
  9. Web site: Baron Leong . MPs and Lords . UK Parliament . 31 October 2022.
  10. Web site: Round-up of Oxfordshire people honoured in the Queen's birthday list . . 4 November 2022 . 14 June 2014.
  11. Web site: Birthday Honours lists 2014. 14 June 2014. 4 November 2022. Government of the United Kingdom: HM Government.