Molly Christine Meacher, Baroness Meacher, (born 15 May 1940), known from 2000 to 2006 as Lady Layard, is a British social worker.
Meacher was educated at the Berkhamsted School for Girls, the University of York, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1970, and the University of London, where she received a Certificate of Qualification in Social Work in 1980.
She was a social worker in North London and worked for the Mental Health Foundation. From 1991 to 1994 Meacher was chief adviser to the Russian Government on employment. Following she became Deputy Chair Police Complaints Authority, a post she held until 2002. Between 2002 and 2004, she was chair of Security Industry Authority, and in 2004, she was appointed chair of the East London and City Mental Health Trust. She is currently the Chair of a new body (from 2007), the East London NHS Foundation Trust.[1][2] On 2 May 2006, she was made a life peer as Baroness Meacher, of Spitalfields in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and sits as a crossbencher.
In 1962 she married Michael Meacher, with whom she has two sons and two daughters. They divorced in 1987, and in 1991 she married Peter Richard Grenville Layard. She and her second husband are one of the few couples to both hold titles in their own right.