The Baroness Garden of Frognal | |
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Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords | |
Assumed office 5 March 2018 | |
Baroness-in-Waiting Government Whip | |
In office 4 November 2014 –7 May 2015 | |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | The Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon |
Succeeded by | Vacant |
In office 13 October 2010 –7 October 2013 | |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | The Baroness Thornton |
Succeeded by | The Baroness Jolly |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 18 October 2007 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | 22 February 1944 |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Liberal Democrats |
Spouse | |
Children | Antonia Rolph and Alexandra Whitfield |
Alma mater | St Hilda's College, Oxford |
Susan Elizabeth Garden, Baroness Garden of Frognal, PC (born Button, 22 February 1944) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who, since 2018, serves as Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.
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 Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and (Higher Education) Department for Education. [3]
Lady Garden married in 1965 Timothy Garden. Lord Garden died on 9 August 2007, by whom she has two daughters. [4]
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