Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover

Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover (2014)

Lindsay Patricia Northover, Baroness Northover (born Granshaw , born August 21, 1954 ) is a British politician of the Social Democratic Party and now the Liberal Democrats , who has been a life peeress member of the House of Lords since 2000 .

Life

Studies, professional career and unsuccessful candidacies for the lower house

After visiting the Brighton and Hove High School Lindsay Northover began a study of Historical Sciences at St Anne's College of Oxford University , where she started a Bachelor of Arts (BA), and in 1976 a Master of Arts (MAHistory) with a focus on the history of Modern times acquired. With financial support through scholarships, she continued her studies at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania , completing them in 1978 with a further Master of Arts, before receiving a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) in the subjects of the history of science and the theory of science in 1981 acquired.

Between 1980 and 1983 she was a Research Fellow at University College London and St. Mark's Hospital in London . In the general election on June 9, 1983 , she applied for the first time unsuccessfully for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the Welwyn Hatfield constituency for a seat in the House of Commons . She then worked as a research fellow at the Medical School of St. Thomas' Hospital in London, before she was lecturer in medical history at the Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine and at University College London from 1984 to 1991 .

During this time, Lindsay Northover, who was chairwoman of the SDP's Health and Welfare Association between 1987 and 1988, ran again unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in the elections on June 11, 1987 in the constituency of Welwyn Hatfield . After she was chairman of the Liberal Democrats' Association of Parliamentary Candidates from 1988 to 1991 and chairwoman of the Liberal Democrats Women's Association between 1992 and 1995, she also ran for the general election on May 1, 1997 in the Basildon constituency , but lost again and thus missed the Moving into the House of Commons.

Member of the House of Lords and other offices

Lindsay Northover was raised to the British nobility by a letters patent dated May 1, 2000 as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Northover , of Cissbury in the County of West Sussex . Shortly afterwards, on May 10, 2000, she was introduced as a member of the House of Lords .

Subsequently, between 2001 and 2002, she was first spokeswoman for the Group of the Liberal Democrats for health and then from 2002 to 2010 for international development and simultaneously between 2009 and 2010 for the legislative procedure for the equality law. During this time, she was also a member of the House of Lords Special Committee for Embryonic Stem Cell Research between 2001 and 2002 and a member of the Special Committee for the European Union and the Sub-Committee for Foreign Affairs, Defense and International Development from 2003 to 2004 . Baroness Palmer was also a member of the Advisory Board of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) between 2005 and 2010 and also served as a trustee of the Tropical Health and Education Trust from 2007 to 2010 . From 2008 to 2010 she was a member of the Upper House Committee for Economic Affairs and, at the same time, Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Society with the Commonwealth of Nations . She was also a trustee of the Bryn Mawr College Association and, between 2009 and 2010, a trustee of the UK UNICEF committee.

After the election of the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats in the general election on May 6, 2010 and the subsequent formation of a coalition government , Baroness Northover, who was a trustee of the Liberal Democrats between 2009 and 2011, has been a Whip with the title of Baroness-in since 2010 -Waiting to HM the Queen Government Group Spokesperson on Health, Women and Equality and International Development. In addition, she was Spokesperson for Justice, Legal Services, Wales and the Advocate General of Scotland between 2010 and 2012. Since 2012 she has also been spokeswoman for the Liberal Democrats' Group on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage ( access on October 25, 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed October 25, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett’s (accessed October 25, 2012)

Commons : Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Introduction of Baroness Northover ( Hansard , May 10, 2000)