Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark

Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark (born October 15, 1931 as Pauline Welch ) is a British educator, Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords . She held the rank of Chief Inspector of Schools in England .

Perry attended Wolverhamptons Girls High School and Girton College . In 1952, she married George Perry, a lecturer at Oxford University , with whom she has three sons and a daughter. She has worked as a teacher and philosophy lecturer in England, Canada and the USA.

In 1970, Perry began working in the School Inspectorate, which was then part of the Department for Education and Skills. In 1981 she became the chief school inspector. In 1986 she became Vice Chancellor of London South Bank University, the first woman to head a British university. She has held a number of university functions, including Pro Chancellor at the University of Surrey and President of Lucy Cavendish College .

Perry has also worked for Southwark Cathedral , the Church of England and the City of London. Perry chaired a commission of inquiry that reviewed the operations of the Crown Appointment Commission.

Perry was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 1991. In the same year she was appointed as Baroness Perry of Southwark, of Charlbury in the County of Oxfordshire to the Life Peer and thus a member of the House of Lords. Perry was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2003 to 2005 and chaired the working group on the ethics of animal experimentation from 2003 to 2005. Perry also chaired the Commission on the Second Reorganization of the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham and Chaired the Academies and Liberal Schools Commission in the London borough of Wandsworth.

In 2007, Perry was vice-chairman of a commission within the Conservative Party that dealt with civil service. In 2011, Perry was named Whip of the Conservative Group in the House of Lords.

On May 26, 2016, she retired under the Regulations of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 and left the House of Lords.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ethics of research involving animals on the Nuffield Council on Bioethics website

Web links

• House of Lords Register of Interests: Baroness Perry of Southwark