The Baroness Ludford | |
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Member of the European Parliament for London | |
In office 10 June 1999 –22 May 2014 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Seb Dance |
Islington Borough Councillor for Clerkenwell Ward | |
In office 7 November 1991 –10 June 1999 | |
Preceded by | Paul Matthews |
Succeeded by | Isabelle Humphreys |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 30 September 1997 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Halesworth,East Suffolk,England | 14 March 1951
Nationality | British •Irish |
Political party | Liberal Democrat |
Spouse | Steve Hitchins |
Residence | London |
Alma mater | LSE |
Sarah Ann Ludford,Baroness Ludford (born 14 March 1951) is a British-Irish Liberal Democrat politician and member of the House of Lords. She served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London from 1999 until 2014.
Ludworth was born in the Blyth Rural District of East Suffolk to an English father and an Irish mother and grew up in Hampshire. [1] [2] On a scholarship,she attended the independent school Portsmouth High School. She went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science,both from the London School of Economics. She subsequently qualified as a barrister,joining Gray's Inn in 1979. [3]
Ludford was created a life peer as Baroness Ludford,of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington on 30 September 1997, [4] after serving as a Councillor for the London Borough of Islington 1991–99. She was elected MEP for London at the European Parliament election in 1999 and returned in 2004 and 2009,before losing her seat in 2014. [5]
A 2008-rule change by the European Parliament initially prevented Ludford (like other Eurodeputies) from taking her seat in the House of Lords in the UK Parliament due to her re-election to the European Parliament in the 2009 election. [6]
She remains a member of the Liberal Democrat groups Friends of Israel and Friends of Turkey. [7]
A longstanding opponent of capital punishment,Baroness Ludford has been pressing European drug companies not to supply executioners in the United States with sedatives. [8]
Ludford lives in Islington. [10] She was married to Steve Hitchins,Leader of Islington Borough Council (2000–06) [11] [12] until his death in September 2019.
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