Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon GCMG, KBE, PC, usually known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician and diplomat. He is the Chair of the Liberal Democrats 2015 General Election Team. After service as a Royal Marine and as an intelligence officer for the UK security services, Lord Ashdown was a Member of Parliament for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999; later he was the international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 27 May 2002 to 30 May 2006, following his vigorous lobbying for military action against Yugoslavia in the 1990s. A gifted polymath, Ashdown has an interpretership in Mandarin Chinese and is fluent in other languages. He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in the New Year Honours 2006. 

February 27th, 1941 in New Delhi  /  Died:   Dec 22nd, 2018