Diana Mary Warwick, Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe (born 16 July 1945) is a

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member of the

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Background

Warwick was educated at

Bedford College, University of London Bedford College was in York Place after 1874 Bedford College was founded in London in 1849 as the first higher education college for women in the United Kingdom. In 1900, it became a constituent of the University of London. Having played a lead ...

, BSc Sociology, 1967, now part of

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.Royal Holloway College, ''Higher Magazine No.17'', autumn 2012, accessed 24 November 2012

Career

She is former Chair of the

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. She is also Chair of

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. She was Chief Executive of

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for 14 years. Previously she was General Secretary of the

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from 1983 to 1992 and Chief Executive of the

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from 1992 to 1995 and also Chair of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). On 10 July 1999 she was created a

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as Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe, of Undercliffe in the County of

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. Her husband was Sean Terence Bowes Young (1943-2021), son of the director

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and writer

Dorothea Bennett Dorothea Bennett (December 27, 1929 in Honolulu, Hawaii – August 16, 1990 in Houston, Texas) was a geneticist, known for the genetics of early mammalian development and for research into mammalian sperm surface structures and their role in ...

.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 4084

References

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