Susan Thomas, Baroness Thomas of Walliswood

For those of the same name, see Sue Thomas (disambiguation).

Susan Petronella Thomas, Baroness Thomas of Walliswood OBE, DL (born 20 December 1935) is a British businesswoman and Liberal Democrat politician.

Family background

Thomas is the daughter of John Arrow and Ebba Fordham. In 1958, she had married David Churchill Thomas, but was divorced later. They have two daughters and a son.

Education

She was educated at Cranborne Chase School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1957.

Career

Thomas worked for the National Economic Development Office from 1971 to 1974 and was chief executive of the Council of Europe of the British Clothing Industries from 1974 to 1978. Between 1985 and 1994, she was school governor.

She contested Mole Valley for the SDP-Liberal Alliance in the 1983 and 1987 general elections and Surrey for the Liberal Democrats in the 1994 European Parliament election, but failed to be elected.

Honours

In the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).^[1] On 6 October 1994, she was created a life peer as Baroness Thomas of Walliswood, of Dorking in the County of Surrey.^[2] Thomas was appointed in January 1996 a Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey.^[3]

References

↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 51772. pp. 8–11. 16 June 1989. Retrieved 2008-01-11.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 53816. p. 14211. 11 October 1994. Retrieved 2008-01-11.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 54315. p. 2193. 13 February 1996. Retrieved 2008-01-11.

External links

Baroness Thomas of Walliswood profile at the site of Liberal Democrats
"DodOnline". Retrieved 2007-03-04.

Current Liberal Democrat peers

Hereditary peers	Addington Glasgow Oxford & Asquith Vacant

Life peers	Alderdice Allan of Hallam Alliance Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville Barker Beith Benjamin Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury Bowles of Berkhamsted Bradshaw Brinton Bruce of Bennachie Burnett Burt of Solihull Campbell of Pittenweem Carlile of Berriew Chidgey Clement-Jones Cotter Dholakia Doocey Falkner of Margravine Fearn Featherstone Foster of Bath Fox Garden of Frognal German Goddard of Stockport Greaves Grender Hamwee Harris of Richmond Humphreys Hussain Hussein-Ece Janke Jolly Jones of Cheltenham Kirkwood of Kirkhope Kramer Lee of Trafford Lester of Herne Hill Loomba Macdonald of River Glaven Maclennan of Rogart Maddock Manzoor Mar & Kellie Marks of Henley-on-Thames McNally Miller of Chilthorne Domer Newby Nicholson of Winterbourne Northover Oates Paddick Palmer of Childs Hill Palumbo of Shouthwark Parminter Pinnock Purvis Randerson Razzall Redesdale Rennard Roberts of Llandudno Rodgers of Quarry Bank Scott of Needham Market Scriven Sharkey Sharp of Guildford Sheehan Shipley Shutt of Greetland Smith of Clifton Smith of Newnham Steel of Aikwood Stephen Stoneham of Droxford Storey Strasburger Stunell Suttie Taverne Taylor of Goss Moor Teverson Thomas of Gresford Thomas of Walliswood Thomas of Winchester Thornhill Tope Tordoff Tyler Tyler of Enfield Vallance of Tummel Verjee Wallace of Saltaire Wallace of Tankerness Walmsley Watson of Richmond Willis of Knaresborough Wrigglesworth

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