Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns

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Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
Joyce Anne Clarke

(1947-07-17) 17 July 1947 (age 76)
London, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Richard Anelay
(m. 1970)
Brunel University

Joyce Anne Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office from August 2014 to June 2017. Anelay was appointed as Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union in the Second May ministry, after the 2017 reshuffle.[1]

Anelay was Government

Opposition Chief Whip prior to the 2010 general election.[2]

Early life

Born in

Brunel, took the postgraduate degree of MA
.

Following university, Anelay worked as a secondary school teacher from 1969 to 1974. She later became a volunteer adviser with the

Political career

Prior to her elevation to the

Life Peer as Baroness Anelay of St Johns, of St John's in the County of Surrey in 1996.[8]

Between May 1997 and June 2002, Baroness Anelay served in various Conservative front bench posts, including Opposition Whip and

Privy Council
.

After the general election, on 12 May 2010, Anelay was appointed Government Chief Whip in the Lords and Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms.[10]

On 6 August 2014, the day after

faith and communities brief, which reverted to Eric Pickles.[11]

In April 2017, Anelay expressed concerns about reports of homophobia in Chechnya, and she released the following statement: "The detention and ill-treatment of over 100 gay men in Chechnya is extremely concerning. Reports have also suggested that at least three of these men have been killed."[12]

In May 2020, as Chairwoman of the International Relations and Defence Committee in Britain's House of Lords, she questioned whether Israel should continue to receive preferential access to the U.K. market if the plan for annexing West Bank territory, as laid out in the incoming unity government's coalition agreement, proceeds.[13]

Personal life

Anelay married in 1970, her university contemporary, Richard Anelay, a

King's Bench Walk Chambers.[14]

Arms

Coat of arms of Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns
Escutcheon
Barry of four azure and or five acorns in cross counterchanged.
Supporters
On either side an angel proper vested argent wings sashed and blowing a trumpet supported by the exterior hand or.[15]

References

  1. ^ [1] Evening Standard (12 June 2017). Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  2. ^ "Baroness Anelay of St Johns". UK Parliament.
  3. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  4. ^ "Enfield County School Centenary" (PDF).
  5. ^ "Ministers". Government of the United Kingdom.
  6. ^ "No. 52173". The London Gazette. 15 June 1990. p. 9.
  7. ^ "No. 54066". The London Gazette (1st supplement). 16 June 1995. p. 8.
  8. ^ "No. 54554". The London Gazette. 17 October 1996. p. 13805.
  9. ^ "Cameron reshuffles shadow team". BBC News. 3 July 2007.
  10. ^ Her Majesty's Government Archived 15 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "The Rt Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns DBE". Government of the United Kingdom.
  12. ^ Butterworth, Benjamin (11 April 2017). "Activists to protest Russian Embassy over Chechen concentration camps for gay men". Pink News. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  13. ^ "U.K. Lords Committee Calls to Limit Israel's Economic Access if Annexation Goes Ahead". Haaretz. 13 May 2020.
  14. ^ "Richard Anelay – Family Law Barristers London -". 1kbw.co.uk.
  15. ^ Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage. 2000.

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Party political offices
Preceded by Conservative Chief Whip of the House of Lords
2007–2014
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Shadow Chief Whip of the House of Lords
2007–2010
Succeeded by
Preceded by Chief Whip in the House of Lords
2010–2014
Succeeded by
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
2010–2014
Preceded by
Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth

2014–2017
Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of State for Exiting the European Union
2017
Succeeded by
The Lord Callanan