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Thursday, 19 July, 2001, 15:28 GMT 16:28 UK
Archer's life in pictures
Jeffrey Archer became a millionaire novelist and darling of the Conservative party before his downfall and eventual jailing for perjury.
BBC News Online looks back at the major events of his once-promising life in pictures.
As an Oxford University athlete in 1964, his contemporaries remember his many false starts
With his then fianc�e Mary, whom he married in 1966
As a Conservative MP for Louth in Lincolnshire in 1969
With the Beatles, in their dressing room during a 1963 concert in Liverpool
In 1986 as Tory deputy chairman, with the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the party conference
The 1987 case: Jeffrey and Mary triumphant after winning record libel damages. He denied sleeping with a prostitute
John Major attended the Archers' Christmas champagne party at their penthouse flat in 1996
Archer, with arch-rival and eventual winner Ken Livingstone, during the 1998 London mayoral race
Archer was made a life peer for services to the Conservative Party, and remains a peer despite his jailing for perjury
The couple held a photocall in 1999, after Archer stood down as mayoral candidate when the alibi stories surfaced
With his personal trainer at his home in 1999
Art imitating life: rehearsing his role in his own play, the courtroom drama The Accused, in 2000
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