 Knighted in 1984, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, "of Trevose in the County of Cornwall" on 26 March 1991.His membership in the House of Lords was terminated on 13 June 2017 as he did not attend a sitting of the House during a session lasting six months or longer.Wolfson has married twice, firstly Patricia Rawlings (now Baroness Rawlings) in 1962, and after their divorce in 1967, he married Susan Davis in the same year.