Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton

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Ellen Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton, DBE, DL (born 1 June 1942, Bradford, England) has been a Conservative Party life peer in the British House of Lords since 2010. [1]

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She was a Councillor with Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council from 1986 and was the Chairman of the Local Government Association until June 2011. [2]

Biography

Born as Ellen Margaret Midgley in 1942 to John and Evelyn (née Smith) Midgley, she attended Hanson Grammar School and the Balls Park Teacher Training College, where she achieved a Certificate in Education. She worked as a schoolteacher. In 1969, she married John Eaton, with whom she has a son and a daughter.

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Honours

Coat of arms of Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton
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Escutcheon
Argent three escallops in pale a sinister canton in chief and a dexter canton in base Vert.
Supporters
On either side a hierocosphinx with a bull's tail Argent armed beaked and the tail tufted Or winged Vert the wing charged with two roses Argent barbed and seeded Or murally gorged and holding in the interior foreclaws a length of vine stalk leaved Vert.
Motto
Deo Dante Dedi [10]

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References

  1. Profile at House of Lords Archived 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Hetherington, Peter (21 October 2008). "Interview: An icy reception". The Guardian.
  3. Kilner, Will (22 July 2010). "Bingley ward member of Bradford Council tells of ceremony". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  4. "Britain's heroes". Letter to the Daily Telegraph. 9 November 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2022.{{cite press release}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. "No. 56963". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2003. p. 11.
  6. "No. 59282". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2009. p. 6.
  7. "Baroness Eaton, DBE DL, Honorary Fellow". Bradford College. Archived from the original on 20 March 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  8. "No. 59497". The London Gazette . 26 July 2010. p. 14201.
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  10. Debrett's Peerage. 2020. p. 2482.
Political offices
Preceded by Chair of the Local Government Association
2008–2011
Succeeded by