Career
After the 2001 election he was elevated to the peerage on 4 July as Baron Pendry, of Stalybridge in the County of Greater Manchester under the Life Peerages Acting 1958. President of the Football Foundation Limited and s Advisor to Tameside District Council s Trust. In an article in Cheshire Life magazine in June 2004, Pendry revealed that he was born in relatively comfortable circumstances in Broadstairs, Kent, attending school at Street Augustine"s Abbey.
He worked as a trade union officer NUPE and engineer before being elected to Parliament in 1970.
He served as an opposition whip between 1971 and 1974. In Callaghan"s administration between 1976 and 1979 Pendry served as a junior Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (assistant government whip) and subsequently as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
In 1979 he returned to the backbenches until he was appointed to the post of Shadow Minister for and Tourism by Rt. Honorary John Smith, Member of Parliament, a position he held until 1997.
Lord Pendry has a love of sport that he developed during national service with the Royal Air Force.
He was appointed the President of the Football Foundation in February 2003 and he continues to serve in this position. A young Pendry learnt boxing at the hands of a Benedictine monk and became an Oxford Blue and boxed for the Royal Air Force.
