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Ellen Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton, DBE, DL (born 1 June 1942, Bradford, England) has been a Conservative Party life peer in the British House of Lords since 2010.[1]

She has been a Councillor with Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council since 1986 and was the Chairman of the Local Government Association until June 2011.[2]

Biography

Born as Ellen Margaret Midgley in 1942 to John and Evelyn (née Smith) Midgley, she attended Hanson Grammar School and the Balls Park Teacher Training College, where she achieved a Certificate in Education. She worked as a schoolteacher. In 1969, she married John Eaton, with whom she has a son and a daughter.

Political career

  • Member, Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council, since 1986[3]
  • Leader of Conservative Group 1995–
  • Council Leader 2000–06
  • Former chair: Bradford Local Strategic Partnership Board, Bradford Cultural Consortium
  • Former co-chair, Bradford Safer Communities Partnership; Director: Bradford Centre Regeneration Company, Leeds Bradford International Airport
  • Member, Yorkshire and Humber Assembly
  • Local Government Association: Vice-chairman, Conservative Group, Chairman, Conservative Group, 2008–11
  • Member, Committee of the Regions, 2003–06
  • Deputy Lieutenant for West Yorkshire since 2008
  • Chairman, Local Government Association, 2008–11

Affiliations

  • Chairman and Trustee, Near Neighbours (national registered charity)
  • Trustee, Angelus Foundation (national registered charity for drugs education)
  • Trustee, Cottingley Town Hall, Cottingley, Bradford, West Yorkshire
  • Member, Common Sense Group as anti-"woke" group within the Conservative Party[4]

Honours

Coat of arms of Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton
Escutcheon
Argent three escallops in pale a sinister canton in chief and a dexter canton in base Vert.
Supporters
On either side a hierocosphinx with a bull's tail Argent armed beaked and the tail tufted Or winged Vert the wing charged with two roses Argent barbed and seeded Or murally gorged and holding in the interior foreclaws a length of vine stalk leaved Vert.
Motto
Deo Dante Dedi[10]

References

  1. ↑ Profile at House of Lords Archived 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Hetherington, Peter (21 October 2008). "Interview: An icy reception". The Guardian.
  3. ↑ Kilner, Will (22 July 2010). "Bingley ward member of Bradford Council tells of ceremony". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Britain's heroes". Letter to the Daily Telegraph. 9 November 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2022.{{cite press release}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ↑ "No. 56963". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2003. p. 11.
  6. ↑ "No. 59282". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2009. p. 6.
  7. ↑ "Baroness Eaton, DBE DL, Honorary Fellow". Bradford College. Archived from the original on 20 March 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  8. ↑ "No. 59497". The London Gazette. 26 July 2010. p. 14201.
  9. ↑ "Baroness Eaton DBE, DL". Marston Holdings. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  10. ↑ Debrett's Peerage. 2020. p. 2482.


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