Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford

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Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford DBE (born January 14, 1941) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.

She is the daughter of Sir Cyril Osborne, Conservative MP for Louth, Lincolnshire from 1945 to 1969, and is a poultry farmer.

Alongside Anji Hunter, former aide to Tony Blair, and the supermodel Stella Tennant, Baroness Byford is one of the best-known alumna of St Leonards School in St Andrews, Fife. She succeeds Kathleen Ollerenshaw DBE as the school's President.

She was made a Life peer Baroness Byford, of Rothley in the County of Leicestershire in 1996, and was also knighted.