Rosalind Patricia-Anne Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids, , COG (née George; 10 January 1931 – 14 October 2025) was a British Labour politician, who served as member of the House of Lords from 1999 to 2019. she was made a life peer as Baroness Howells of St Davids, of Charlton in the London Borough of Greenwich on 21 July 1999. The name St Davids refers to the parish in Grenada where she was brought up, to the south-east of the island. She retired from the House of Lords on 10 January 2019.
Howells was appointed a Companion of the Order of Grenada (COG) in 2009.
Early life
Born in Grenada on 10 January 1931, she moved to Britain at the age of 20, "joining the early wave of Caribbean migrants who would go on to shape the nation's social and cultural fabric", in the words of political commentator Patrick Vernon.
In March 2009, she was inaugurated as the Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire in Luton. Howells was a trustee of St George's University's UK Trust and served on the board of the Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation (WINDREF), the research institute affiliated with St. George's University.
Personal life and death
Howells was the younger sister of Dame Hilda Bynoe, who served as the first female viceregal representative in the history of the Commonwealth as Governor of Grenada from 1968 until 1974.
In 1955, she married John Charles Howells, and they had two daughters. He died in 2004.
Howells died on 14 October 2025, at the age of 94.