Joan Hanham, Baroness Hanham

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Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham CBE (born 23 September 1939) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords and was leader of the Kensington and Chelsea Council from 1989.

She was made a Life peer as Baroness Hanham, of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 1999. In the same year, Hanham was a candidate for the re-run Conservative nomination to be Mayor of London, losing to Steve Norris.

Hanham is also Chairman of St. Mary's Hospital NHS Trust and Westminster Primary Care Trust. She became a Freeman of the City of London in 1984 and was awarded the CBE in 1997.

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• Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 27 July 1999