Diana Maddock, Baroness Maddock

The Right Honourable The Baroness Maddock
Lady Maddock during the 2009 Liberal Democrat Party Conference
Member of Parliament for Christchurch
In office 29 July 1993 – 19 March 1997
Preceded by	Robert Adley
Succeeded by	Christopher Chope
Personal details
Born	31 January 1947 (1947-01-31) (age 64)
Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal Democrat
Spouse(s)	Sir Alan Beith

Diana Margaret Maddock, Baroness Maddock and Lady Beith (born 31 January 1947) is a Liberal Democrat politician.

Maddock was educated at the University of Portsmouth and leader of the Liberal Democrats on Southampton City Council. She was elected as Member of Parliament for Christchurch at a by-election in 1993 caused by the death of Robert Adley, but lost the seat at the 1997 election to the Conservative candidate Christopher Chope. She was made a life peer as Baroness Maddock, of Christchurch in the County of Dorset, in 1997.^[1]

From 1998 to 2000 she was President of the Liberal Democrats.^[2]

She was elected a member of Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Council, for Berwick North ward, in 2005 - as Councillor Diana Beith [1]. The council was abolished in 2009 and the Borough was absorbed into the new unitary authority of Northumberland County Council. In the election for Berwick North ward of the new council, held in May 2008, her successor as the Liberal Democrat candidate was defeated [2].

She is married to Sir Alan Beith, MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed. She and her husband are one of the few couples who both hold titles in their own right.

Styles

• Miss Diana Derbyshire (1947–?)
• Mrs Diana Maddock (?–1997)
• The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Maddock (1997–2000)
• The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Maddock, Mrs Beith (2000–2008)
• The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Maddock, Lady Beith (2008–)

References

1. ^ London Gazette: no. 54938. p. 12377. 4 November 1997. Retrieved 21 March 2010.
2. ^ Template:Official Liberal Democrat Website

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Diana Maddock
• Baroness Maddock profile at the site of Liberal Democrats

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Robert Adley	Member of Parliament for Christchurch 1993–1997	Succeeded by Christopher Chope
Party political offices
Preceded by Robert Maclennan	President of the Liberal Democrats 1998–2000	Succeeded by Navnit Dholakia

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Name	Maddock, Diana Maddock, Baroness
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Date of birth	31 January 1947
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