The Baroness Sherlock | |||||||||||||||
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |||||||||||||||
Assumed office 17 June 2010 | |||||||||||||||
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Born | Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock 10 November 1960 Finsbury Park,London,England | ||||||||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||
Residence | Durham,England | ||||||||||||||
Alma mater | University of Liverpool Open University St Chad's College,Durham | ||||||||||||||
Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock,Baroness Sherlock, OBE (born 10 November 1960) is a British politician serving as a Member of the House of Lords since 2010. A member of the Labour Party,she is an ordained priest of the Church of England.
Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock was born on 10 November 1960 in Finsbury Park,London. She was educated at Our Lady's Abingdon in Abingdon on Thames.
Sherlock read Sociology at the University of Liverpool,and later received a Master of Business Administration from the Open University. [1] She served as President of the National Union of Students from 1988 to 1990. [2]
Sherlock was director of the UK Council for Overseas Student Affairs from 1991 until 1997,when she became chief executive of the National Council for One Parent Families. She was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2000 New Year Honours. [3]
Sherlock worked as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2000 to 2003,advising the Chancellor of the Exchequer on social issues. She later became a trustee of think tank Demos.
Sherlock was chief executive of the Refugee Council from 2003 to 2006. A member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission from 2007 to 2010, [4] she chaired the National Student Forum during the same period.
Sherlock has been non-executive director of the Financial Ombudsman Service board since 2008. She was also non-executive director of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission from 2008 to 2010.
On 17 June 2010,she was created a life peer as Baroness Sherlock,of Durham in the County of Durham. [5] Sherlock was introduced in the House of Lords on 5 July 2010,where she sits as a member of the Labour Party. [6]
Sherlock was appointed an opposition whip in March 2013,and a Work and Pensions spokesperson in October 2013. She was promoted to serve as a senior whip from May 2015 until April 2020,when she stepped down from the position. She was an Education spokesperson from May 2021 to May 2022.
Sherlock is an Honorary Fellow and Tutor at St Chad's College,Durham,where she studied for a doctorate in Theology. [7] [8]
Sherlock trained for ordained ministry at St Mellitus College from 2016 until 2018,when she was ordained as a Church of England deacon. [9] She served her curacy at St Nicholas Church,Durham (St Nics) from 2018 to 2022. [10] She was ordained a priest at Durham Cathedral in June 2019. [11] In 2022,she was appointed a non-stipendiary priest vicar at Westminster Abbey, [9] and was also licensed as non-stipendiary associate vicar at St Nics. [12] [13]
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SHERLOCK. The Revd Maeve Sherlock, NS Assistant Curate of St Nicholas's, Durham (Durham), to be NS Associate Minister, remaining Priest-Vicar of Westminster Abbey.