Diana Elles, Baroness Elles

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Diana Louie Elles, Baroness Elles (born 19 July 1921) is a former British United Nations representant.

The daughter of Colonel Stewart Newcombe, she was educated at private schools in London, Paris and Florence as well as at the University of London, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in French and Italian in 1941. Between 1941 and 1945, Elles served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, becoming a Flight Officer in 1944.

Called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1956, she was voluntary care committee worker in Kennington until 1972, when she was the United Kingdom delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. From 1973 to 1974, Elles was member of the UN Sub-Commission for Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and from 1973 to 1979, International Chairman of the European Union of Women. She was also the United Kingdom delegate to the European Parliament from 1973 to 1975 and UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights from 1975 to 1979. In 1993, she was appointed an Honorable Bencher of Lincoln's Inn.

Elles was a Council Member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs from 1977 to 1986 and governor of the University of Reading from 1986 to 1996. For the British Institute Florence, she was governor between 1986 and 1996, chairman of the board of governors between 1994 and 1996, and has been a life governor since 1996. She was trustee of the Industry and Parliament Trust from 1985 to 1996 and of the Caldecott Community from 1990 to 1997. On 2 May 1972, she was created a life peer as Baroness Elles, of the City of Westminster.

Since 1945, she has been married to Neil Patrick Moncrieff Elles. They have a son and a daughter.