What is Bill Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank?
[[File:Official portrait of Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank crop 2.jpg|frameless|right]] '''William Thomas Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank''', [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] (born 28 October 1928), usually known as '''William Rodgers''', but also often known as '''Bill Rodgers''', is a British politician. He was born in [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]]. He was one of the '[[Gang of Four (SDP)|Gang of Four]]' of senior [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politicians left the party to form the [[Social Democratic Party (UK)|Social Democratic Party]] (SDP). He helped to lead the SDP into the merger that formed the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]]. He was that party's leader in the [[House of Lords]] from 1997 through 2001.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lord Rodgers of Quarrybank interviewed by Mike Greenwood|url=http://cadensa.bl.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=e0Le6tqov1/WORKS-FILE/190390041/9|publisher=[[British Library Sound Archive]]|access-date=14 July 2016}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.libdems.org.uk/people/lord-rodgers-of-quarry-bank Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank] profile at the site of Liberal Democrats *[https://www.theyworkforyou.com/peer/lord_rodgers_of_quarry_bank Recent Speeches in the Lords] {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodgers, Bill}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford]] [[Category:English autobiographers]] [[Category:Labour Party (UK) MPs]] [[Category:Members of the British House of Commons for English constituencies]] [[Category:Liberal Democrat Life Peers]] [[Category:Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Secretaries of State of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Social Democratic Party (UK) MPs]] [[Category:UK MPs 1959–1964]] [[Category:UK MPs 1964–1966]] [[Category:UK MPs 1966–1970]] [[Category:UK MPs 1970–1974]] [[Category:UK MPs 1974]] [[Category:UK MPs 1974–1979]] [[Category:UK M