Gloria Hooper, Baroness Hooper

Gloria Hooper, Baroness Hooper

Gloria Dorothy Hooper, Baroness Hooper , CMG , DSG , FRSA , FRGS (born May 25, 1939 ) is a British lawyer and life peer in the House of Lords .

The daughter of Frederick Hooper and Frances Maloney went to La Sainte Union Convent High School, Southampton and the Royal Ballet School . She studied at the University of Southampton , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Law in 1960 , and at the Universidad Central del Ecuador , where she was a Rotary Foundation scholar . Baroness Hooper CMG founded The British School of Quito in 1995 .

Example

Hooper was assistant to the chief archivist of the John Lewis Partnership in 1960/61 and an editor at Sweet & Maxwell, Law Publishers from 1960 to 1961 . From 1962 to 1967 she was press secretary for Winchester City Council and from 1967 to 1972 notary at Taylor and Humbert. She was with Slater Walker France SA until 1973 and then partner with Taylor and Humbert (now Taylor, Wessing) from 1974 to 1984.

Political career

As an active member of the Conservative Party , Hooper was set up as a candidate in the Liverpool constituency for the 1979 European elections . It was actually a safe Labor seat, but Hooper won it by a margin of 7,227 votes; Her opponent was Terry Harrison, a member of the Trotskyist wing of Labor. Compared to the general election five weeks earlier, this was the strongest turn to the Conservatives in the country. Hooper was unable to enter parliament again in the 1984 European elections.

Memberships

• Member of the Law Society of England and Wales
• President of the British Educational Suppliers Association
• Vice President of Canning House
• President of Waste Watch
• President of the European Foundation For Heritage Skills
• Committee member of the Institute for the Study of the Americas. of ( University of London )
• President of Good Guy's Cancer Appeal
• President of the Anglo Latin-American Foundation
• President of Friends of Colombia for Social Aid
• Trustee of the Royal Academy of Dance
• Trustee of the Center for Global Energy Studies
• Trustee of the National Museums and Galleries of Merseyside Development Trust
• Trustee of the Industry and Parliament Trust
• Member and trustee of The Tablet
• Member of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Geographical Society

Ennoblement

She was bestowed the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) and on June 10, 1985 she was raised to Life Peeress as Baroness Hooper . She is also the holder of the Order of St Gregory the Great .

Web links

• Entry on Gloria Hooper in the European Parliament 's database of deputies

Individual evidence

• DodOnline . Retrieved April 2, 2007.