Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids
Rosalind Patricia-Anne Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids , OBE (born January 10, 1931 in Grenada ), is a British Labor politician and a member of the House of Lords .
Howells attended St Joseph's Convent, South West London College, and City College in Washington, DC In 1955, she married John Charles Howells and they have two daughters.
She was a director of the Greenwich Racial Equality Council and the Community and Equal Opportunities Worker . Baroness Howells is a trustee of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust .
Howells was the first black woman to sit on the GLC's Training Board , the first female senior executive at the University of Greenwich, and she was Vice-Chair of the London Voluntary Services Council . She works on the Carnival Liaison Committee and the Greater London Action in Race Equality and has worked actively for justice in the field of race relations. She is the trustee of the Jason Roberts Foundation, which supports a number of sports facilities for children and youth in the UK and Grenada.
On July 21, 1999 she was raised as Baroness Howells of St Davids , of Charlton in the London Borough of Greenwich, to a Life Peeress and has been a member of the House of Lords since then.
In March 2009 she became Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire at Luton .
Web links
- Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 25 October 1999.
- 100 Great Black Britons.
Individual evidence
- ^ Jason Roberts Foundation website. ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ "Baroness Howells announced as new University Chancellor", University of Bedfordshire, March 19, 2009. ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Howells, Rosalind, Baroness Howells of St Davids |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Howells, Rosalind Patricia-Anne, Baroness Howells of St Davids |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Labor politician and member of the House of Lords |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grenada |