Her father,Geoffrey Vaughan Blackstone CBEGM ,was the Chief Fire Officer for Hertfordshire and her mother,Joanna Vosper,was an actress and model for the House of Worth in Paris. She was educated at Ware Grammar School for Girls and the London School of Economics,where she gained a doctorate. Her doctoral thesis,titled "The provision of pre-school education:A study of the influences on the development of nursery education in Britain from 1900–1965",was submitted in 1969.[3]
Her academic career began at the former Enfield College (now Middlesex University) before she went on to become a lecturer at the LSE and Professor of Educational Administration at the University of London Institute of Education.
She has served as chairman of the ballet board of the Royal Opera House,the Fabian Society,and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR),and has sat on the governing bodies of numerous other organisations. She has been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation. She is currently Chairman of the British Library and Chairman of Great Ormond Street hospital. She is currently the patron of Hamlin Fistula UK,a charity whose aim is to raise funds and awareness to support the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital.
On 15 September 2010,Blackstone,along with 54 other public figures,signed an open letter published in The Guardian,stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.[7]
In January 2013,she became co-chair at the Franco-British Council together with Christian de Boissieu,an organisation that seeks to promote better understanding between Britain and France and to contribute to the development of joint action. She is the chair to the British Section of the council.[10] She became the Chair of the Bar Standards Board in January 2018.[11]
Publications
Her publications,which mainly cover education and social policy issues,include:
Disadvantage and Education with Jo Mortimore (Heinemann,1982)
Race Relations in Britain with Bhikhu Parekh and Peter Saunders (Routledge,1997)
Blackstone, Tessa (1997). "The Boy Who Threw an Inkwell: Bevan and Education". In Goodman, Geoffrey (ed.). The State of the Nation: The Political Legacy of Aneurin Bevan. London: Gollancz. pp.156–178. ISBN0-575-06308-4.
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