Joan Hanham, Baroness Hanham
Life Peerage | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Joan Brownlow Spark 23 September 1939 United Kingdom |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse | Ian (or Iain) William Fergusson Hanham (m. 1964) |
Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham,
CBE (née Spark; born 23 September 1939) is a former member of the House of Lords. She sat as a Conservative
.
She was
Department for Communities and Local Government from 2010 to 2013,[2] and was leader of the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council from 1989. She was succeeded by Cllr Merrick Cockell, who became leader in April 2000.[3]
She was made a
Steve Norris. She retired from the House of Lords on 22 July 2020.[5]
National Health Service
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The daughter of Alfred Spark and Mary Mitchell, she married, in 1964, Dr Ian (or Iain) William Fergusson Hanham, a respected oncologist and also a member of the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council from 2002 until his death on 12 April 2011.
Hanham was Chairman of
Department for Communities and Local Government from 2010 until 2013. She was awarded the Freedom of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on 19 January 2011. In January 2014 she was appointed as the interim chair of health sector regulator Monitor.[7]
References
- ^ "Dr Iain Hanham". From the Hornet's Nest. 18 April 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
- ^ "Biography: Baroness Hanham CBE". Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- ^ Cllr Merrick Cockell – Profile – Conservative Party<Archived 2014-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "No. 55559". The London Gazette. 21 July 1999. p. 7857.
- ^ "Baroness Hanham". UK Parliament. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ "No. 54794". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1997. p. 8.
- ^ "Conservative peer appointed Monitor's interim chair". Health Service Journal. 13 January 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
External links
- Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 27 July 1999
- Biography Department for Communities and Local Government
- Profile at New Statesman
