Susan Garden, Baroness Garden of Frognal explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Baroness Garden of Frognal
Honorific-Suffix:PC
Office:Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
Term Start:5 March 2018
Office1:Baroness-in-Waiting
Government Whip
Primeminister1:David Cameron
Term Start1:4 November 2014
Term End1:7 May 2015
Predecessor1:The Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Successor1:Vacant
Primeminister2:David Cameron
Term Start2:13 October 2010
Term End2:7 October 2013
Predecessor2:The Baroness Thornton
Successor2:The Baroness Jolly
Office3:Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Term Start3:18 October 2007
Life Peerage
Birth Date:22 February 1944
Nationality:British
Party:Liberal Democrats
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.

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.

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.[2]

Personal life

Lady Garden married in 1965 Timothy Garden. Lord Garden died on 9 August 2007, by whom she has two daughters.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/255.stm Result: Finchley and Golders Green
  2. Web site: Baroness Garden of Frognal on the Parliamentary website . 12 January 2011.
  3. https://www.burkespeerage.com/ www.burkespeerage.com