Diana Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe explained

The Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe
Term Start:10 July 1999
Life peerage
Birth Name:Diana Mary Warwick
Birth Date:16 July 1945
Nationality:British
Alma Mater:Bedford College (BSc)

Diana Mary Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (born 16 July 1945) is a British politician and Labour member of the House of Lords.

Background

Warwick was educated at Bedford College, University of London, BSc Sociology, 1967, now part of Royal Holloway, University of London.[1]

Career

She is former Chair of the Human Tissue Authority.[1] She is also Chair of International Students House, London.

She was Chief Executive of Universities UK for 14 years.[1] [2]

Previously she was General Secretary of the Association of University Teachers from 1983 to 1992 and Chief Executive of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy from 1992 to 1995 and also Chair of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO).[1]

On 10 July 1999 she was created a life peer as Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe, of Undercliffe in the County of West Yorkshire.[3]

Her husband was Sean Terence Bowes Young (1943-2021), son of the director Terence Young and writer Dorothea Bennett.[4] [5]

Notes and References

  1. Royal Holloway College, Higher Magazine No.17, autumn 2012, accessed 24 November 2012
  2. News: Universities protest at plan to raise visa costs. 22 April 2005. The Guardian. 15 June 2010 . London . Donald . MacLeod.
  3. News: Men rule the union roost. 18 July 1999. Times Higher Education. 15 June 2010 . London.
  4. News: Births, marriages and deaths: September 28, 2021.
  5. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 4084