Jean Coussins, Baroness Coussins

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The Right Honourable
The Baroness Coussins
FCIL
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Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
23 March 2007
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born26 October 1950
Nationality British
Political party Crossbench

Jean Elizabeth Coussins, Baroness Coussins, FCIL (born 26 October 1950) is a British parliamentarian and an adviser on corporate responsibility.

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Lady Coussins is a member of the Advertising Standards Authority, a member of the Better Regulation Commission, and was formerly Chief Executive of the Portman Group. She also served as the Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. [1]

Personal life

Jean Coussins was educated at Godolphin and Latymer School, London, and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she graduated with a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages in 1973. [2] She married Roger J. Hamilton in 1976, with whom she has two children; their marriage was dissolved in 1985. [2] Jean has one child with Trevor Carter. [3]

Honours

In February 2007, the House of Lords Appointments Commission recommended she should be conferred with a Life Peerage as a Crossbencher in Parliament; her title was gazetted as Baroness Coussins, of Whitehall Park in the London Borough of Islington on 23 March 2007. [4] She has been conferred Honorary Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Linguists [5] and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

In 2013, she was awarded the President's Medal by the British Academy. [6]

Arms

Lady Coussins' coat of arms is blazoned as follows:

Coat of arms of Jean Coussins, Baroness Coussins
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Granted
2007
Escutcheon
Gules on each of two pallets Argent between three goblets in fess Or a pallet Purpure. [7]
Supporters
On either side a heraldic dolphin Argent finned Or holding in the beak a quill Argent spined Or.
Motto
Quicquid Facias Fac Optime
Badge
A chef's hat Argent irradiated Or.
Symbolism
The three goblets represent the grantee's three children. Together with the chef’s hat they reflect the family's interests and connections with food and drink. The grantee was educated at Godolphin School; hence the dolphins which are shown with quills, alluding to the grantee's academic interests.

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References

  1. ↑ www.iol.org.uk Archived 19 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 "Coussins" . Who's Who . Vol. 2019 (online ed.). A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ↑ "Shattering Illusions: West Indians in British Politics". Goodreads. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  4. ↑ "No. 58286". The London Gazette . 28 March 2007. p. 4511.
  5. ↑ www.parliament.uk
  6. ↑ "The British Academy President's Medal". British Academy. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  7. ↑ Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 2187.

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