Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton

Last updated

Official Portrait, 2022 Official portrait of Baroness Eaton crop 2, 2022.jpg
Official Portrait, 2022

Ellen Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton, DBE, DL (born 1 June 1942, Bradford, England) has been a Conservative Party life peer in the British House of Lords since 2010. [1]

Contents

She has been a Councillor with Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council since 1986 and was the Chairman of the Local Government Association until June 2011. [2]

Biography

Born as Ellen Margaret Midgley in 1942 to John and Evelyn (née Smith) Midgley, she attended Hanson Grammar School and the Balls Park Teacher Training College, where she achieved a Certificate in Education. She worked as a schoolteacher. In 1969, she married John Eaton, with whom she has a son and a daughter.

Political career

Affiliations

Honours

Coat of arms of Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton
Coronet of a British Baron.svg
Eaton Lozenge.png
Escutcheon
Argent three escallops in pale a sinister canton in chief and a dexter canton in base Vert.
Supporters
On either side a hierocosphinx with a bull's tail Argent armed beaked and the tail tufted Or winged Vert the wing charged with two roses Argent barbed and seeded Or murally gorged and holding in the interior foreclaws a length of vine stalk leaved Vert.
Motto
Deo Dante Dedi [10]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman</span>

Helene Valerie Hayman, Baroness Hayman, is a British politician who was Lord Speaker of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. As a member of the Labour Party she was a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1979. When she became an MP at age 25, she was the youngest MP of the 1974–79 Parliament. Hayman became a life peer in 1996.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford</span>

Hazel Osborne Byford, Baroness Byford, is a retired member of the House of Lords, where she served as Opposition Parliamentary Spokesman for Food, Farming and Rural Affairs from 1997 to 2007. She sat as a Conservative.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Janet Fookes</span> British Conservative politician

Janet Evelyn Fookes, Baroness Fookes, is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, she is a life peer in the House of Lords. She was previously a member of the House of Commons from 1970 to 1997, representing the constituencies of Merton and Morden (1970–74) and Plymouth Drake (1974–97). She was a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992 to 1997, and presently is a Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar</span> British politician

Usha Kumari Prashar, Baroness Prashar, is a British politician and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Since the 1970s, she has served as a director or chair of a variety of public and private sector organisations. She became the first chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission upon its creation in April 2006.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn</span> Hong Kong politician (born 1940)

Lydia Selina Dunn, Baroness Dunn, is a Hong Kong-born retired British businesswoman and politician. She became the second person of Hong Kong origin and the first female ethnic Chinese Hongkonger to be elevated to the peerage as a life peeress with the title and style of Baroness in 1990.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tanni Grey-Thompson</span> Welsh wheelchair racer and parliamentarian (born 1969)

Carys Davina Grey-Thompson, Baroness Grey-Thompson,, is a Welsh life peeress, television presenter and former wheelchair racer.

Diana Catherine Eccles, Viscountess Eccles DL is a British Conservative peer and businesswoman.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Angela Harris, Baroness Harris of Richmond</span>

Angela Felicity Harris, Baroness Harris of Richmond, is a Liberal Democrat life peer and formerly a Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1997 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours</span>

The 1997 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours were officially announced in two supplements to The London Gazette of 1 August 1997 and marked the May 1997 resignation of the Prime Minister, John Major.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Zahida Manzoor</span> British Conservative politician

Zahida Parveen Manzoor, Baroness Manzoor, is a British businessperson and Conservative Party member of the House of Lords.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Margaret Prosser, Baroness Prosser</span>

Margaret Theresa Prosser, Baroness Prosser, is a Labour life peer and former trade unionist.

Dame Susan Catherine Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Loughborough, is a British sports administrator who was chairman of UK Sport between 2003 and 2013.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Deborah Stedman-Scott, Baroness Stedman-Scott</span>

Deborah Stedman-Scott, Baroness Stedman-Scott, is a Conservative member of the House of Lords and the former Chief Executive Officer of Tomorrow's People Trust. She had served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2019 until 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tina Stowell, Baroness Stowell of Beeston</span> British Conservative politician and life peer

Tina Wendy Stowell, Baroness Stowell of Beeston, is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gail Rebuck</span>

Gail Ruth Rebuck, Baroness Rebuck is a British publisher and chair of the international book publishing group Penguin Random House's British operations.

The Honours Committee is a committee within the Cabinet Office of the Government of the United Kingdom formed to review nominations for national honours for merit, exceptional achievement or service. Twice yearly the Honours Committee submits formal recommendations for the British monarch's New Years and Birthday Honours. Members of the Honours Committee—which comprises a main committee and nine subcommittees in speciality areas—research and vet nominations for national awards, including knighthoods and the Order of the British Empire.

The February 1974 Dissolution Honours List was issued on 2 April 1974 following the dissolution of the United Kingdom parliament in preparation for a general election.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours</span>

The 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours are honours awarded following the July 2019 resignation of the Prime Minister, Theresa May. The life peerages and other honours were issued as two separate lists by the Cabinet Office on 10 September 2019, while the honours were gazetted as one list on 28 October 2019.

As part of the British honours system, Special Honours are issued at the Monarch's pleasure at any given time. The Special Honours refer to the awards made within royal prerogative, operational honours, political honours and other honours awarded outside the New Years Honours and Birthday Honours.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sharon Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Stevenage</span> British politician (born 1956)

Sharon Jane Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Stevenage,, is a British politician and life peer. She served as the leader of Stevenage Borough Council in Hertfordshire between 2006 and 2022.

References

  1. Profile at House of Lords Archived 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Hetherington, Peter (21 October 2008). "Interview: An icy reception". The Guardian.
  3. Kilner, Will (22 July 2010). "Bingley ward member of Bradford Council tells of ceremony". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  4. "Britain's heroes". Letter to the Daily Telegraph. 9 November 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2022.{{cite press release}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. "No. 56963". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2003. p. 11.
  6. "No. 59282". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2009. p. 6.
  7. "Baroness Eaton, DBE DL, Honorary Fellow". Bradford College. Archived from the original on 20 March 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  8. "No. 59497". The London Gazette . 26 July 2010. p. 14201.
  9. "Baroness Eaton DBE, DL". Marston Holdings. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  10. Debrett's Peerage. 2020. p. 2482.
Political offices
Preceded by Chair of the Local Government Association
2008–2011
Succeeded by