the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. In 1983, Finsberg became a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Western European Union; in 1987, he became its delegation leader. He was President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1991 to 1992, "over which he presided with the aplomb that he had shown forty years before in Hampstead", The Times later noted, adding, "He was one of nature's chairmen, brisk in the conduct of business." Finsberg was the founding Vice-Chairman of the parliamentary branch of Conservative Friends of Israel: he broke the party Whip during the 1973 Yom Kippur War to vote against his leader Ted Heath's government in a division on an arms embargo. Finsberg retired from Parliament at the 1992 general election, at which his seat was taken by Labour's Glenda Jackson, defeating Conservative Oliver Letwin. He was created a life peer in 1992 as Baron Finsberg, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden. Outside Parliament Outside of politics, Finsberg was active in business and charities. From 1968 to 1979, he was Controller of Personnel and Chief Industrial Relations Adviser at Great Universal Stores. Finsberg served as a member (from 1983 to 1986) and Deputy Chairman (from 1986 to 1989) of the South East Regional Board at Trustee Savings Bank (TSB). He was also a member of the Post Office Users National Council from 1970 to 1977, and a member of the Council of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) from 1968 to 1979, where he was Chairman of the Post Office Panel. He served as Vice-President of the Association of Municipal Corporations from 1971 to 1974, where he was also Deputy Chairman from 1969 to 1971. From 1993 to 1995, he was Joint National Treasurer of the Council of Christians and Jews; he became its Joint National Honorary Secretary in 1995. Finsberg was a patron of the Maccabi Association of Great Britain, and in 1993, became a trustee of the Marie Curie Cancer Foundation. He was also vice president and life patron of Children and Youth Aliyah. In addition, Finsberg was a governor of University College School in Hampstead. Honours Finsberg became a Fellow of the Institute of Personnel Management in 1975. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1959 New Year Honours, and knighted in the 1984 New