Susan Garden, Baroness Garden of Frognal

"Lady Garden" redirects here. For the unconnected cancer charity, see Lady Garden Campaign.

Timothy Garden

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(m. 1965;died 2007)​

The Right Honourable The Baroness Garden of Frognal PC
Official portrait, 2024
Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 March 2018
Children	Antonia Rolph and Alexandra Whitfield
Alma mater	St Hilda's College, Oxford

Susan (Sue) Elizabeth Garden, Baroness Garden of Frognal, Baroness Garden PC (born Button, 22 February 1944) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who, since 2018, serves as a Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords. Garden ran in the 2016 election to replace Baroness D'Souza as Lord Speaker, one of the two primary offices of the UK Parliament; Garden came second (of three candidates running) in that election to Lord Fowler.

Career

Educated at Westonbirt School and St Hilda's College, Oxford she became a teacher, becoming Hon FCIL in 2012.

Lady Garden stood as the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Finchley and Golders Green (London) in 2005. ^[1] In September 2007 she was created a Life Peer as Baroness Garden of Frognal, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden. ^{[2] [3]}

Lady Garden is a former Government Whip and Spokesperson for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and (on higher education) for the Department for Education. ^[3]

Personal life

Garden married Timothy Garden in 1965, and they had two daughters. Lord Garden (he too was enobled in 2007) died on 9 August 2007. ^[4]

Styles

• Mrs Timothy Garden (1965–1994)
• Lady Garden (1994–2004)
• The Rt Hon. The Lady Garden (2004–2007)
• The Rt Hon. The Baroness Garden of Frognal (2007–2015)
• The Rt Hon. The Baroness Garden of Frognal, PC (2015–)

References

1. Result: Finchley and Golders Green BBC News 2005-05-23
2. "No. 58498". The London Gazette . 30 October 2007. p. 15677.
3. "Baroness Garden of Frognal on the Parliamentary website" . Retrieved 12 January 2011.
4. www.burkespeerage.com

External links

• Baroness Garden of Frognal on Parliament.uk
• The Times Online coverage of Baron Garden's funeral