Elspeth Howe
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| Born | Elspeth Rosamund Morton Shand Script error: No such module "person date". Marylebone, London, England |
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". Idlicote, Warwickshire, England |
| Party | Crossbencher |
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Elspeth Rosamund Morton Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote, Baroness Howe of Aberavon,[1] CBE (née Shand; 8 February 1932 – 22 March 2022) was a British life peer and crossbench member of the House of Lords (2001–2020) who served in many capacities in public life.
As the widow of Geoffrey Howe, she was formerly known as Lady Howe of Aberavon before receiving a peerage in her own right.
She was the paternal half-aunt of Queen Camilla.
Early life
Born Elspeth R. M. Shand in Marylebone,[2] London, she was the daughter of the writer Philip Morton Shand by his fourth wife, Sybil Mary Shand (née Sissons, formerly Slee).[3][4]
As such, she was a half-aunt to Queen Camilla (née Shand, formerly Parker Bowles), whose father, Bruce Shand, was son of Philip Morton Shand by a previous marriage.[3] She grew up in Bath, Somerset,[3] and was educated at Wycombe Abbey, a private school for girls, and at the London School of Economics.[3]
She married the rising politician Geoffrey Howe in 1953, and had three children.[5]
Career
Howe was deputy chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission from 1975 to 1979,[3] and worked in other capacities from 1980. She was later chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission. In the 1999 New Year Honours she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).[6]
Lady Howe was a Justice of the Peace in Inner London from 1964 until her retirement from the Bench in 2002. She sat in the Youth Court at Camberwell where she was a bench chairman.
On 29 June 2001, at the age of 69, she was made a life peer, as Baroness Howe of Idlicote, of Shipston-on-Stour in the County of Warwickshire,[7] in her own right, becoming one of the first People's Peers. She and her husband Geoffrey Howe were one of the few couples each of whom held a peerage in their own right.
Having already been styled Lady Howe by dint of her husband's knighthood and then his peerage, it was quipped when she received her own peerage that she was "once, twice, three times a Lady".[8]
Howe retired from Parliament on 2 June 2020.[1]
Death
Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote died at her home in Idlicote, Warwickshire, on 22 March 2022, aged 90, having had cancer.[9]
Arms
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References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Parliamentary career for Baroness Howe of Idlicote". MPs and Lords. UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ a b c d e Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Langdon, Julia (23 March 2022). "Lady Howe of Idlicote obituary". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Baroness Howe of Idlicote obituary". The Times. 23 March 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Langdon, Julia (10 October 2015). "Lord Howe of Aberavon obituary". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 26 November 2018. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.[Script error: No such module "London Gazette util". "No. 55354"]. The London Gazette (Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".). 31 December 1998. p. Script error: No such module "London Gazette util"..
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{{cite magazine}}: Check|url=value (help); More than one of|pages=and|page=specified (help)Script error: No such module "London Gazette util". - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hoggart, Simon (5 February 2003). "So much to discuss, so little time". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Baroness Elspeth Howe dies aged 90". BBC News. 23 March 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
External links
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- Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
- Media: A Tory feminist for TV's watchdog: Michael Leapman profiles Lady Elspeth Howe, the incoming chair of the Broadcasting Standards Council
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