Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone

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Tessa Ann Vosper Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone, PC, is a politician in the United Kingdom.

She has been Minister for Education at the Department of Education from 1997 to 2001 then Minister for the Arts at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport 20012003. Before joining the government, she headed Birkbeck College from 1987 to 1997.

She is a Labour life peer in the House of Lords and sits as Baroness Blackstone, of Stoke Newington in Greater London.

In 2004, she became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich.

Baroness Blackstone is a Vice-President of the British Humanist Association.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Alan Howarth
Minister of State for the Arts
2001–2003
Succeeded by
Estelle Morris