Joan Hanham, Baroness Hanham

Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham CBE (born 23 September, 1939) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords and was leader of the Kensington and Chelsea Council from 1989. She was succeeded by Cllr Merrick Cockell, who became leader in April 2000. [ [http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=people.person.page&PersonID=134404 Cllr Merrick Cockell - Profile - Conservative Party ] ]

She was made a Life peer as Baroness Hanham, of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 1999. In the same year, Hanham was a candidate for the re-run Conservative nomination to be Mayor of London, losing to Steve Norris.

Hanham is also Chairman of St. Mary's Hospital NHS Trust and Westminster Primary Care Trust. She became a Freeman of the City of London in 1984 and was awarded the CBE in 1997.

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* [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199899/minutes/990727/ldminute.htm Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords] House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 27 July 1999