Eliza Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Buller

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Elizabeth "Eliza" Lydia Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Buller LG DCB (born July 14, 1948 in Northampton ) is a British intelligence officer and politician who was Director General of the Domestic Intelligence Service Security Service between 2002 and 2007 and has been a Life Peeress Member of the House of Lords is.

Life

Family origin

Eliza Manningham-Buller is the daughter of the politician Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne , who represented the Conservative Party as a Member of the House of Commons for almost 20 years and was both Solicitor General and Attorney General for England and Wales and Lord Chancellor . After he became Baron Dilhorne in 1960, he was appointed 1st Viscount Dilhorne in 1964.

The current 2nd Viscount Dilhorne is her older brother John Manningham-Buller .

Her ancestors were already politically active, such as Edward Manningham-Buller , who was an intermittent member of the House of Commons for 23 years, and her grandfather Mervyn Manningham-Buller , who was a member of the House of Commons for 14 years.

Professional career and promotion to general director of MI5

After attending school and studying English literature at Lady Margaret Hall of the University of Oxford Eliza Manningham-Buller worked from 1971 to 1974 as an English teacher at the Queen's Gate School in London . She then joined the domestic secret service Security Service (MI5) in 1974, where she became a specialist in counter-terrorism and counter-espionage . As such, she became Head of Counter-Terrorism in Ireland in 1992 and a member of the Board of Directors of MI5 in 1993 and as such was Director of Surveillance and Technical Operations before becoming Deputy Director General of MI5 in 1997.

In October 2002, Eliza Manningham-Buller succeeded Stephen Lander as Director General of MI5 and held this position until she was replaced by Jonathan Evans on April 21, 2007. She was the second female Director General of the Security Service after Stella Rimington .

In 2005 she became a Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath in the knighthood collected and also received also in 2005 honorary doctorates from The Open University and the Cranfield University after already 2004 Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall was.

Coat of arms of the Baroness Manningham-Buller

House of Lords

By a letters patent dated June 2, 2008, Eliza Manningham-Buller was elevated to the high nobility as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Manningham-Buller , of Northampton in the County of Northamptonshire . Entitled a seat in the upper house of the British Parliament is linked to which they shortly after July 1, 2008 was introduced . In the upper house she belongs to the group of so-called crossbenchers .

Baroness Manningham-Buller, who has been a member of the Wellcome Trust's Board of Directors since 2008 and an Honorary Graduate from the University of Northampton , received another Honorary Doctor of Laws (Hon. LL.D.) from the University of St Andrews in 2010 and became an Hon also Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University . In 2011 she also became Chair of the Council of Imperial College London, succeeding John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard . In 2014 she was accepted into the Order of the Garter as Lady Companion .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ License to govern: Eliza Manningham-Buller (homepage of the Wellcome Trust )
  2. ↑ Eliza Manningham-Buller appointed Chairman of Imperial College London (press release of Imperial College London of May 18, 2011)
  3. ↑ www.royal.gov.uk
personal data
SURNAME Manningham Buller, Eliza, Baroness Manningham Buller
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manningham-Buller, Elizabeth Lydia, Baroness Manningham-Buller (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and director general of MI5
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Northampton