Gloria Hooper, Baroness Hooper
Life Peerage | |
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Member of the European Parliament for Liverpool | |
In office 17 July 1979 – 16 July 1984 | |
Preceded by | Constituency created |
Succeeded by | Kenneth Stewart |
Personal details | |
Born | 25 May 1939 |
Political party | Conservative |
Gloria Dorothy Hooper, Baroness Hooper, CMG, DSG, FRSA, FRGS (born 25 May 1939) is a British lawyer and a Conservative life peer in the House of Lords.
The daughter of Frederick and Frances (née Maloney) Hooper, she was educated at La Sainte Union Convent High School, Southampton, and at the
Legal background
Hooper was assistant to the chief registrar of
Political career
An active member of the Conservative Party, Hooper was the party's candidate for Liverpool in the 1979 European Parliament election. Although the seat was thought to be safe Labour, Hooper won it by 7,227 over Labour's Terry Harrison, a member of the Militant group.[1] Comparing the election with the total votes cast in the 1979 general election five weeks previously, the swing to the Conservatives was 11% in Liverpool, as against 5% nationally.[2][3] Hooper was defeated in the 1984 election in the Merseyside West constituency.[4]
Affiliations
- Anguilla All Party Parliamentary Group, co-chair
- Law Society of England and Wales, member
- Member of the advisory board, Polar Research and Policy Initiative[5]
- President of the British Educational Suppliers Association
- Vice-president of Canning House (Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Council)
- President of Waste Watch
- President of the European Foundation For Heritage Skills
- Institute for the Study of the Americas (University of London), councilmember
- President of Good Guy's Cancer Appeal
- President of the Anglo Latin-American Foundation
- President of the Friends of Colombia for Social Aid
- President of the Central America Business Council (CABC)
Trusteeships and Fellowships
- Trustee, Royal Academy of Dance
- Trustee, Centre for Global Energy Studies
- Trustee, National Museums and Galleries of Merseyside Development Trust
- Trustee/Fellow, Industry and Parliament Trust (and fellow)
- Trustee, The Tablet
- Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
- Fellow, Royal Geographical Society.
Peerage
She was invested as a Companion of the
References
- ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 11 August 2016.
- ^ Comfort, Nicholas (12 June 1979). "Tories biggest national group in Europe". The Telegraph.
- ^ "Previous UK European elections". BBC News. 2 June 1999. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ "The Rt Hon Baroness Hooper of Liverpool".
- ^ "No. 56430". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2001. p. 3.
- ^ "No. 50151". The London Gazette. 13 June 1985. p. 8123.
Sources
- "DodOnline". Archived from the original on 6 April 2007. Retrieved 2 April 2007.