Celia Thomas, Baroness Thomas of Winchester

Summary

Celia Marjorie Thomas, Baroness Thomas of Winchester, MBE (born 14 October 1945 in Winchester, Hants) was a founding member of the Liberal Party in Winchester in the 1960s.

The Baroness Thomas
of Winchester
Official portrait
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
15 June 2006
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1945-10-14) 14 October 1945 (age 78)
Political partyLiberal Democrats

Thomas was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1985 Birthday Honours.[1]

On 26 May 2006, she was created a life peer with the title Baroness Thomas of Winchester, of Winchester in the County of Hampshire,[2] and she sits as a Liberal Democrat.

Thomas is a Trustee of the charity Muscular Dystrophy UK, having been a long term sufferer.[3] She is also Patron of Driving Mobility, the national charity that provides specialist driving and mobility assessment centres.

References edit

  1. ^ "No. 50154". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 1985. p. 16.
  2. ^ "No. 57997". The London Gazette. 1 June 2006. p. 7521.
  3. ^ "Our Trustees - Muscular Dystrophy UK". www.musculardystrophyuk.org. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  • "DodOnline". Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 6 March 2007.