Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton

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Dorothea Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton (born 16 October 1952), known as Glenys Thornton, is a Labour and Co-operative member of the House of Lords.

A graduate of the London School of Economics, Thornton was General Secretary of the Fabian Society from 1993 to 1996. In 1998 she was made a Life peer as Baroness Thornton, of Manningham in the County of West Yorkshire. She chaired the Social Enterprise Coalition until January 2008, when she was appointed a junior minister of the House of Lords.

She lives in Belsize Park, London, and is married to internet safety expert John Carr. They have two children, George and Ruby.

[edit] External links

• Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 27 July 1998
• Social Enterprise Coalition

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