Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton

For other people with the same name, see Margaret Eaton.

Official Portrait, 2022

Ellen Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton, DBE, DL (born 1 June 1942, Bradford, England) has been a Conservative Party life peer in the British House of Lords since 2010.^[1]

She was a Councillor with Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council from 1986 and was the Chairman of the Local Government Association until June 2011.^[2]

Biography

Born as Ellen Margaret Midgley in 1942 to John and Evelyn (née Smith) Midgley, she attended Hanson Grammar School and the Balls Park Teacher Training College, where she achieved a Certificate in Education. She worked as a schoolteacher. In 1969, she married John Eaton, with whom she has a son and a daughter.

Political career

• Member, Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council, since 1986^[3]
• Leader of Conservative Group 1995–
• Council Leader 2000–06
• Former chair: Bradford Local Strategic Partnership Board, Bradford Cultural Consortium
• Former co-chair, Bradford Safer Communities Partnership; Director: Bradford Centre Regeneration Company, Leeds Bradford International Airport
• Member, Yorkshire and Humber Assembly ^[when?]
• Local Government Association: Vice-chairman, Conservative Group, Chairman, Conservative Group, 2008–11
• Member, Committee of the Regions, 2003–06
• Deputy Lieutenant for West Yorkshire since 2008
• Chairman, Local Government Association, 2008–11

Affiliations

• Chairman and Trustee, Near Neighbours (national registered charity)
• Trustee, Angelus Foundation (national registered charity for drugs education)
• Trustee, Cottingley Town Hall, Cottingley, Bradford, West Yorkshire
• Member, Common Sense Group as anti-"woke^{[broken anchor]}" group within the Conservative Party^[4]

Honours

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 Birthday Honours.^[5]
• Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours^[6][7]
• Baroness Eaton, of Cottingley, in the County of West Yorkshire on 21 July 2010^[8]
• Honorary Doctor of Laws of the University of Bradford - December 2012^[9]

Coat of arms of Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton

Escutcheon Argent three escallops in pale a sinister canton in chief and a dexter canton in base Vert. Supporters On either side a hierocosphinx with a bull's tail Argent armed beaked and the tail tufted Or winged Vert the wing charged with two roses Argent barbed and seeded Or murally gorged and holding in the interior foreclaws a length of vine stalk leaved Vert. Motto Deo Dante Dedi[10]

References

1. Profile at House of Lords Archived 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
2. Hetherington, Peter (21 October 2008). "Interview: An icy reception". The Guardian.
3. Kilner, Will (22 July 2010). "Bingley ward member of Bradford Council tells of ceremony". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
4. "Britain's heroes". Letter to the Daily Telegraph. 9 November 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
5. "No. 56963". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2003. p. 11.
6. "No. 59282". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2009. p. 6.
7. "Baroness Eaton, DBE DL, Honorary Fellow". Bradford College. Archived from the original on 20 March 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
8. "No. 59497". The London Gazette. 26 July 2010. p. 14201.
9. "Baroness Eaton DBE, DL". Marston Holdings. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
10. Debrett's Peerage. 2020. p. 2482.

External links

• BBC Democracy Profile Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine

Political offices
Preceded by Sir Simon Milton	Chair of the Local Government Association 2008–2011	Succeeded by Sir Merrick Cockell