| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Baroness Hooper | |
| Office3: | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health |
| Primeminister3: | Margaret Thatcher John Major |
| Term Start3: | 28 July 1989 |
| Term End3: | 14 April 1992 |
| Predecessor3: | new appointment |
| Successor3: | The Baroness Cumberlege |
| Office4: | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy |
| Primeminister4: | Margaret Thatcher |
| Term Start4: | 26 July 1988 |
| Term End4: | 28 July 1989 |
| Predecessor4: | new appointment |
| Successor4: | Tony Baldry |
| Office5: | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science |
| Primeminister5: | Margaret Thatcher |
| Term Start5: | 13 June 1987 |
| Term End5: | 26 July 1988 |
| Predecessor5: | George Walden |
| Successor5: | John Butcher |
| Office7: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
| Term Start7: | 10 June 1985 Life Peerage |
| Office8: | Member of the European Parliament for Liverpool |
| Term Start8: | 17 July 1979 |
| Term End8: | 16 July 1984 |
| Predecessor8: | Constituency created |
| Successor8: | Kenneth Stewart |
| Birth Date: | 25 May 1939 |
| Party: | Conservative |
Gloria Dorothy Hooper, Baroness Hooper, (born 25 May 1939) is a British lawyer and a Conservative life peer in the House of Lords.
The daughter of Frederick and Frances (née Maloney) Hooper, she was educated at La Sainte Union Convent High School, Southampton, and at the Royal Ballet School. She attended the University of Southampton, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in law in 1960 and at Universidad Central del Ecuador, where she was a Rotary Foundation Fellow. Baroness Hooper opened The British School of Quito in September 1995.
Hooper was assistant to the chief registrar of John Lewis Partnership between 1960 and 1961 and editor in current law of Sweet & Maxwell, Law Publishers between 1961 and 1962. From 1962 to 1967, she was information officer, to the Winchester City Council and from 1967 to 1972, assistant solicitor with Taylor and Humbert. In 1972–73, Hooper was legal adviser to Slater Walker France S.A. Between 1974 and 1984, she was partner with Taylor and Humbert (now Taylor, Wessing).
An active member of the Conservative Party, Hooper was the party's candidate for Liverpool in the 1979 European Parliament election. Although the seat was thought to be safe Labour, Hooper won it by 7,227 over Labour's Terry Harrison, a member of the Militant group.[1] Comparing the election with the total votes cast in the 1979 general election five weeks previously, the swing to the Conservatives was 11% in Liverpool, as against 5% nationally.[2] [3] Hooper was defeated in the 1984 election in the Merseyside West constituency.[4]
She was invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2002 New Year's Honours and on 10 June 1985, she was created a life peer with the title Baroness Hooper, of Liverpool and St James's in the City of Westminster. She was created a Dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great.