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Baron Levy of Mill Hill, aka "Lord Cashpoint" (Michael Abraham Levy) 1944 - ?
Michael Levy is self-made man with "bouffant hair and high heel shoes" who made millions in the music industry thanks to his work with the likes of glam rocker Alvin Stardust and the ska band Bad Manners.

Levy befriended Tony Blair in the mid-1990s and soon became a close associate of the prime minister, earning a lordship in 1997. Though he's served as the British envoy to the Middle East for the last seven years, it's his work as the Labour Party's chief fundraiser that has earned him the most notoriety (and the nickname "Lord Cashpoint"). He has now been arrested twice for allegedly handing out of titles of nobility in exchange for donations to the Labour Party. His drive to raise funds reportedly led him to arrange for a porn actress and former Hugh Hefner girlfriend—posing with her husband as potential donors known as the "Count and Countess of Rozel"—to get a picture taken with Blair and receive a private tour of 10 Downing Street. Levy was called by a friend as a persuasive salesman who could "sell sand to the Arabs."

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The 35th Baron of Kingsale (John de Courcy)
1941-2005

Fans of the John Goodman masterpiece King Ralph will likely find themselves similarly enchanted by the late Irish Lord Kingsale. Though known to wear robes to help conceal his corpulence, Baron Kingsale was a working man of few aristocratic indulgences: "My main line of work is odd jobs. I am prepared to lend my hand to absolutely anything, however dirty or unpleasant." This attitude and need for money led him to hold many jobs—plumber, silage-pit digger, bingo caller, extra in the movie Cleopatra, and front-man for an Australian dating service.

A profile in the 1990s had him living in a dingy flat decorated with pictures of the nine-inch high ruins of his ancestral castle in Kinsale and a female star of the UK version of American Gladiators, chain-smoking Benson & Hedges, and contently decreeing "The world's my oyster." The lord's Who's Who profile listed "self-deception" as a recreation "because I consider myself important and nobody else does."

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