Diana Maddock, Baroness Maddock

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Lady Maddock, 2009

Diana Margaret Maddock, Baroness Maddock (born Derbyshire , born January 31, 1947 - June 26, 2020 ) was a British liberal democratic politician .

She studied at the University of Portsmouth and was leader of the Liberal Democrats on Southampton City Council . In the 1993 by-election in Christchurch , caused by the death of parliamentarian Robert Adley , she was elected to the lower house and lost her seat in the 1997 general election to the conservative candidate Christopher Chope . On October 30, 1997, she was raised as Baroness Maddock , of Christchurch in the County of Dorset, to Life Peeress , making her a member of the House of Lords .

She was elected to Berwick-upon-Tweed City Council in 2005 . In 2008 she no longer stood for election and resigned from the council.

From 1998 to 2000 she was President of the Liberal Democrats.

She had two daughters from her first marriage to Robert Frank Maddock in 1966. Since 2001 she was married to Alan Beith for the second time , who was also raised to a life peer as Baron Beith in 2015 - she has since held the courtesy title of Baroness Beith . She and her husband were among the few British couples who both hold titles of nobility in their own right.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 54938, HMSO, London, November 4, 1997, p. 12377 ( PDF , English).
  2. ↑ www.andrewteale.me.uk
  3. ↑ www.northumberlandcouncil.gov.uk ( Memento from February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Official Liberal Democrat Website . undated. Archived from the original on August 25, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Maddock, Diana, Baroness Maddock
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maddock, Diana Margaret, Baroness Maddock; Derbyshire, Diana; Beith, Diana, Baroness Beith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Liberal Democrat politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1947
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2020