Ezra attended Monmouth School before going up to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a first class honours degree in History.

[3] During World War II he worked in intelligence at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force; he received the U.S.

Following the death of Denis Healey in October 2015, Ezra became the oldest sitting member of the House of Lords,[5] but took leave of absence on 30 November and died on 22 December 2015.

[8] He was created a life peer as Baron Ezra, of Horsham in the County of West Sussex on 2 February 1983.

[9] Ezra was admitted a Liveryman Honoris Causa of the Haberdashers' Company, and elected an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.