The Baroness Thomas of Winchester | |
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 Official portrait | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 15 June 2006 Life Peerage | |
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| Born | 14 October 1945 |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats |
Celia Marjorie Thomas, Baroness Thomas of Winchester, MBE (born 14 October 1945 in Winchester, Hants) was a founding member of the Liberal Party in Winchester in the 1960s.
Thomas was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1985 Birthday Honours.[1]
On 26 May 2006, she was created a life peer with the title Baroness Thomas of Winchester, of Winchester in the County of Hampshire,[2] and she sits as a Liberal Democrat.
Thomas is a Trustee of the charity Muscular Dystrophy UK, having been a long term sufferer.[3] She is also Patron of Driving Mobility, the national charity that provides specialist driving and mobility assessment centres.
References
- ↑ "No. 50154". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 1985. p. 16.
- ↑ "No. 57997". The London Gazette. 1 June 2006. p. 7521.
- ↑ "Our Trustees - Muscular Dystrophy UK". www.musculardystrophyuk.org. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- "DodOnline". Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 6 March 2007.
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