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Diana Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe

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The Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe
Official portrait, 2023
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
10 July 1999
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Diana Mary Warwick

(1945-07-16) 16 July 1945 (age 79)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
Alma materBedford College (BSc)

Diana Mary Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (born 16 July 1945) is a British politician and Labour member of the House of Lords.

Background

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Warwick was educated at Bedford College, University of London, BSc Sociology, 1967, now part of Royal Holloway, University of London.[1]

Career

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She is former Chair of the Human Tissue Authority.[1] She is also Chair of International Students House, London.

She was Chief Executive of Universities UK for 14 years.[1][2]

Previously she was General Secretary of the Association of University Teachers from 1983 to 1992 and Chief Executive of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy from 1992 to 1995 and also Chair of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO).[1]

On 10 July 1999 she was created a life peer as Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe, of Undercliffe in the County of West Yorkshire.[3][4]

Her husband was Sean Terence Bowes Young (1943-2021), son of the director Terence Young and writer Dorothea Bennett.[5][6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Royal Holloway College, Higher Magazine No.17, autumn 2012, accessed 24 November 2012
  2. ^ MacLeod, Donald (22 April 2005). "Universities protest at plan to raise visa costs". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 15 June 2010.
  3. ^ "No. 55555". The London Gazette. 16 July 1999. p. 7715.
  4. ^ "Men rule the union roost". Times Higher Education. London. 18 July 1999. Retrieved 15 June 2010.
  5. ^ "Births, marriages and deaths: September 28, 2021".
  6. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 4084
Trade union offices
Preceded by General Secretary of the Association of University Teachers
1983–1993
Succeeded by