Diana Eccles, Viscountess Eccles

Diana Catherine Eccles, Viscountess Eccles , Baroness Eccles of Moulton DL (born Sturge , born October 4, 1933 in Bromley , Kent ) is a British businesswoman, conservative politician and life peeress .

family

She is the second daughter of Raymond Wilson Sturge and Margaret Sylvia Keep. Since 1955 she has been married to John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles and therefore carries the courtesy title Viscountess Eccles . They have three daughters and one son.

Career

The daughter of Raymond and Margaret Sturge acquired in 1978 at the Open University the Bachelor of Arts . She worked for Middlesbrough Community Council from 1955 to 1958 and was a partner in a graphic design firm from 1963 to 1977. From 1974 to 1985 she worked for the utility company North Eastern Electricity Board , from 1981 to 1984 she was vice chairman of the National Council for Voluntary Organizations . Diana Eccles worked in the Department of Energy from 1982 to 1984 and in various other agencies and companies over the next few years. From 1986 to 1994 she was the director of Tyne Tees Television . Since 1998 she has been director of Times Newspapers Holdings Ltd. , also from Opera North and, since 2003, from London Clinic .

Eccles was a trustee of the Charities Aid Foundation from 1982 to 1989 and a member of the British Heart Foundation from 1989 to 1998 . She was also a trustee of the York Minster Trust Fund . On May 10, 1990, she was raised as Baroness Eccles of Moulton , of Moulton in the County of North Yorkshire , to the Life Peer and moved into the House of Lords . She and her spouse are one of the few couples who both have titles of nobility in their own right. In 1995 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Durham .

Web links

• Ms Diana Eccles at Hansard (English)
• Baroness Eccles of Moulton at www.parliament.uk
• Diana Catherine Sturge, Baroness Eccles of Moulton at www.thepeerage.com