Audrey Emerton, Baroness Emerton

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The Baroness Emerton
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Official Portrait of Baroness Emerton
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
17 February 1997 1 November 2019
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
Audrey Caroline Emerton

(1935-09-10) 10 September 1935 (age 89)
Nationality British
Political party Crossbench

Audrey Caroline Emerton, Baroness Emerton, DBE , GCStJ , FRCN (born 10 September 1935), is a former member of the House of Lords. She sat as a crossbencher.

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Appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1989 New Year Honours, [1] she was created a life peer as Baroness Emerton, of Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent and of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington on 17 February 1997. [2] She sat in the House of Lords until her retirement on 1 November 2019. [3]

Career

She worked in the National Health Service as Chief Nursing Officer of South East Thames Regional Health Authority throughout the 1980s, and is chiefly remembered and honoured for leading the programme that replaced Darenth Park Hospital, a huge asylum for people with learning disabilities, which closed in August 1988. [4] She was President of the Association of Nurse Administrators 1979-1983 [5]

Affiliations

Emerton was Chancellor and Chief Commander of St John Ambulance and a volunteer with the organisation for more than 70 years. She submitted her resignation in January 2002, saying she did not wish to seek a further three years in the post when her period of office expired in June 2002 [6]

She was elected chairman of the charity Attend (formerly known as National Association of Hospital and Community Friends) in 2003. She retired as chairman in 2006 but was named vice-president, a position she still holds. [7]

She served as chairman of the Brighton Health Care NHS Trust from 1994 to 2000: the Audrey Emerton Building, an educational facility of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, is named in her honour. [8]

Arms

Coat of arms of Audrey Emerton, Baroness Emerton
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Coronet
A Coronet of a Baroness
Escutcheon
Sable a Cross conjoined to a Bordure Argent between four Ancient Lamps the spouts inwards and enflamed Or
Supporters
On either side a Dragon Sable gorged with a Collar attached thereto a Chain reflexed over the back and grasping in the interior forefoot a Stave terminating in an eight-pointed Maltese Cross Argent
Motto
PRO FIDE PRO ULTILITATE HOMINUM(For the Faith, for the service of mankind)
Orders
Order of the British Empire circlet (Appointed DBE 1989)

Honours

Order of the British Empire (Civil) Ribbon.svg Order of St John (UK) ribbon -vector.svg Extension of the Service medal St. John.jpg

RibbonDescriptionNotes
Order of the British Empire (Civil) Ribbon.svg Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Order of St John (UK) ribbon -vector.svg Order of St John (GCStJ)
  • Dame Grand Cross
  • 2004
Extension of the Service medal St. John.jpg ULS Extension of the Service Medal of the Order of St John with 4 Gold Bars

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  2. "No. 54685". The London Gazette . 20 February 1997. p. 2133.
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  8. "About Us". The Audrey Emerton Building. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
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