Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids

Rosalind Patricia-Anne Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids, OBE (born 10 January, 1931) is a Labour member of the House of Lords.

She was made a Life peer as Baroness Howells of St Davids, of Charlton in the London Borough of Greenwichin 1999. The name St Davids refers to the parish in Grenada where she was brought up, to the south east of the Island. She has complemented the Howells family of Wales in so taking the peerage name St Davids, perhaps unwitting, since the patron saint of Wales is indeed St David.

Howells was educated at St Joseph's Convent, South West London College and City College in Washington DC. In 1955, she married John Charles Howells and they have two daughters.

Her career background includes being the Director of the Greenwich Racial Equality Council as well as a Community and Equal Opportunities Worker. Baroness Howells is a trustee of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, and served as the unofficial advisor to the Lawrence family.

Howells was the first black woman to sit on the GLC's Training Board; the first female member of the Court of Governors of the University of Greenwich and was the Vice Chair at the London Voluntary Services Council. She has worked with the Carnival Liaison Committee, and the Greater London Action in Race Equality and has been an active campaigner for justice in the field of race relations.

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* [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199899/minutes/991025/ldminute.htm Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords] House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 25 October 1999