Patience Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft

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The Right Honourable
The Baroness Wheatcroft
Official portrait of Baroness Wheatcroft crop 3, 2019.jpg
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
22 December 2010
Life peerage
Personal details
Born (1951-09-28) 28 September 1951 (age 72)
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
Political partyNon-affiliated (previously Conservative Party)
Alma mater University of Birmingham

Patience Jane Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft (born 28 September 1951) is a British journalist and life peeress, who was editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal Europe. [1] She left this role upon becoming a peer. [2] [3]

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She previously served as editor of The Sunday Telegraph newspaper. She resigned from this post in September 2007 after eighteen months in the job and temporarily moved out of journalism. [4]

Career

Wheatcroft was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School and Birmingham University (LLB, Law, 1972). [5] She and her husband, Tony Salter, launched the specialist trade magazine Retail Week in 1988 and Wheatcroft served as its consultant editor until 1992. [6]

She has worked on several national newspapers, including the Daily Mail , The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph . After serving as Deputy City Editor of The Mail on Sunday , she was appointed Business and City Editor of The Times in 1997 and then as editor of The Sunday Telegraph in March 2006.

Wheatcroft won the Wincott Senior Journalist of the Year Award in 2001 and in 2003 was London Press Club Business Journalist of the Year.

She resigned as editor of The Sunday Telegraph on 4 September 2007, being replaced by Ian MacGregor, who until then had been deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph. Reports stated that Wheatcroft was under pressure to integrate the Sunday paper's reporters with the daily newspaper's 24/7 operation. [7]

Appointments

From 1 January 2008 until 2009, Wheatcroft served as a non-executive director of Barclays plc. [8]

From 27 February 2008 until 2009, she served as a non-executive director of Shaftesbury plc, [9] a British property investment company with assets in central London.

On 8 May 2008, she was appointed head of the newly created Forensic Audit Panel by the incoming Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. The panel is tasked with monitoring and investigating financial management at the London Development Agency and the Greater London Authority. [10]

On 30 July 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Wheatcroft to the board of the British Museum. [11]

On 22 December 2010, Wheatcroft was created a life peer as Baroness Wheatcroft, of Blackheath in the London Borough of Greenwich . [12] She sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative peer, having been a long-standing supporter of the party, until November 2019, but now sits as an unaffiliated peer. [13] [14] [15]

On 4 April 2012, she became a non-executive board member of Fiat S.p.A.. From 12 October 2014 until Stellantis-group's creation on 16 January 2021, she was a non-executive board member of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. [16] [17] [18] [ original research? ]

In early 2023, she ran to be Chairlady of the European Movement, losing to Mike Galsworthy.

Personal life

Wheatcroft is married with three children. Her publisher husband Tony was a Conservative Party campaigner working in the London boroughs of Greenwich and Lewisham. [19]

Arms

Coat of arms of Patience Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft
Escutcheon
Azure on a chevron between three garbs Or three larks Sable singing and each supporting a quill pen Azure.
Supporters
Dexter a female rat sinister a male Siamese cat both Azure. [20]
Motto
Patience And Perseverance

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References

  1. ↑ "Patience Wheatcroft to head Wall Street Journal Europe" Archived 16 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Press Gazette , 17 June 2009.
  2. ↑ "Patience Wheatcroft to leave Wall Street Journal" Archived 2 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ WSJ Europe brings in Tracy Corrigan for editor role Archived 28 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "Wheatcroft quits journalism" Archived 27 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine , The Guardian , 13 December 2007.
  5. ↑ "University of Birmingham - Complete University Guide". Archived from the original on 17 May 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  6. ↑ Dominic Ponsford and Zoe Smith "Will Telegraph Group find that Patience is a virtue?", Archived 12 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Press Gazette, 10 March 2006. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
  7. ↑ Kiss, Jemima (4 September 2007). "Wheatcroft quits Sunday Telegraph". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008.
  8. ↑ Biography of Patience Wheatcroft on Barclays.com. Retrieved 23 June 2008 [ dead link ]
  9. ↑ Announcement of Patience Wheatcroft's appointment from Hemscott Archived 22 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved 27 November 2008.
  10. ↑ "Mayor of London announces new Forensic Audit Panel to investigate GLA and LDA". Greater London Authority. 8 May 2008. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2008.
  11. ↑ "Patience Wheatcroft appointed to the board of the British Museum". number10.gov.uk. 30 July 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  12. ↑ "No. 59644". The London Gazette . 24 December 2010. p. 24689.
  13. ↑ "Latest Peerages announced". number10.gov.uk. 19 November 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  14. ↑ "New Members of the Lords announced – News from Parliament – UK Parliament". Parliament of the United Kingdom. 19 November 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  15. ↑ "Parliamentary career for Baroness Wheatcroft – MPs and Lords – UK Parliament". members.parliament.uk. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  16. ↑ "'Patience Wheatcroft' in fcagroup.com -> investor -> financial-result -> 2012 -> annual-report -> fcagroup.com/en-US/investors/financial_reports/FiatDocuments/Bilanci/2012/FiatGroup_Annual_Report_2012_ENG.pdf" (PDF). FCA Group. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
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  18. ↑ "'director' in stellantis.com -> menu -> investor -> reporting -> financial-report -> annual-report -> stellantis.com/content/dam/stellantis-corporate/investors/financial-reports/Stellantis_2020_12_31_Annual_Report.pdf" (PDF). stellantis group. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
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  20. ↑ Debrett's Peerage. 2015. p. 1291.
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