Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza
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Frances Gertrude Clair D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza, CMG (born 18 April 1944) is a British scientist.
The daughter of Robert A. G. Russell and Pauline Parmet was educated at St Mary's School in Princethorpe, graduated from University College, London with a Bachelor of Science in anthropology in 1970 and graduated from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford with a Doctor of Philosophy in 1976.
D'Souza worked for the Nuffield Institute of Comparative Medicine from 1973 to 1977, on Oxford Polytechnic from 1977 to 1980 and was independent research consultant for the UN from 1985 to 1988.
She was invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1999 and was created a life peer as Baroness D'Souza, of Wychwood in the County of Oxfordshire on 1 July 2004. Baroness D'Souza sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords.
She is married to Stanley D'Souza and has two children.
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- DodOnline. Retrieved on October 19, 2006.