A top worker at a York-based charity was today named as one of 15 new "People's Peers".
Richard Best, Director of The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, was awarded a place in the House of Lords by the Independent Appointments Commission.
He said today: "I am very thrilled. It is a huge honour and one that reflects really well on the foundation and the work of everybody involved in it.
"I hope that everybody at the foundation feels that this is a recognition of all the things that they do."
Mr Best, 55, was director of the National Federation of Housing Associations for 15 years before joining the foundation, one of the country's leading charitable organisations on social poverty.
He became director of the foundation, formerly the Joseph Rowntree Trust, in 1988, when he also received the OBE.
Updated: 16:03 Thursday, April 26, 2001
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