Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett

[citation needed] Birkett attended Stowe before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he completed an MA.

[2] Birkett produced Some People (1962) and Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (1963), starring Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence and Robert Shaw, both directed by Clive Donner.

[clarification needed] Having succeeded as Baron Birkett in 1962,[4] he later took his seat on the Crossbenches of the Upper House.

[citation needed] There, he was a leading proponent of a national lottery to provide extra funding for the Arts and proposed the idea in a speech before the House of Lords in 1988.

[8][verification needed] Gloria, Lady Birkett (mother, by a previous marriage, of the actor Alexander Siddig), died on 10 February 2001.