Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton

British Conservative politician For other people with the same name, see Margaret Eaton.

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Ellen Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton, DBE, DL (born 1 June 1942, Bradford, England) has been a Conservative Party life peer in the British House of Lords since 2010.

She was a Councillor with Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council from 1986 and was the Chairman of the Local Government Association until June 2011.

Biography

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Born as Ellen Margaret Midgley in 1942 to John and Evelyn (née Smith) Midgley, she attended Hanson Grammar School and the Balls Park Teacher Training College, where she achieved a Certificate in Education. She worked as a schoolteacher. In 1969, she married John Eaton, with whom she has a son and a daughter.

Member, Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council, since 1986
Leader of Conservative Group 1995–
Council Leader 2000–06
Former chair: Bradford Local Strategic Partnership Board, Bradford Cultural Consortium
Former co-chair, Bradford Safer Communities Partnership; Director: Bradford Centre Regeneration Company, Leeds Bradford International Airport
Member, Yorkshire and Humber Assembly
Local Government Association: Vice-chairman, Conservative Group, Chairman, Conservative Group, 2008–11
Member, Committee of the Regions, 2003–06
Deputy Lieutenant for West Yorkshire since 2008
Chairman, Local Government Association, 2008–11

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 Birthday Honours.
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours
Baroness Eaton, of Cottingley, in the County of West Yorkshire on 21 July 2010
Honorary Doctor of Laws of the University of Bradford - December 2012

Coat of arms of Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton
	Escutcheon Argent three escallops in pale a sinister canton in chief and a dexter canton in base Vert. Supporters On either side a hierocosphinx with a bull's tail Argent armed beaked and the tail tufted Or winged Vert the wing charged with two roses Argent barbed and seeded Or murally gorged and holding in the interior foreclaws a length of vine stalk leaved Vert. Motto Deo Dante Dedi

Profile at House of Lords Archived 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
Hetherington, Peter (21 October 2008). "Interview: An icy reception". The Guardian.
Kilner, Will (22 July 2010). "Bingley ward member of Bradford Council tells of ceremony". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
"Britain's heroes". Letter to the Daily Telegraph. 9 November 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2022.{{cite press release}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
"No. 56963". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2003. p. 11.
"No. 59282". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2009. p. 6.
"Baroness Eaton, DBE DL, Honorary Fellow". Bradford College. Archived from the original on 20 March 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
"No. 59497". The London Gazette. 26 July 2010. p. 14201.
"Baroness Eaton DBE, DL". Marston Holdings. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
Debrett's Peerage. 2020. p. 2482.

Political offices
Preceded bySir Simon Milton	Chair of the Local Government Association 2008–2011	Succeeded bySir Merrick Cockell

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