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