Genista Mary "Jenny" McIntosh, Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall (born 23 September 1946) is a British arts consultant, theatre executive and

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politician. Born Genista Mary Tandy, she was the daughter of

Geoffrey Tandy Geoffrey A. Tandy (1900–1969) was a British marine biologist and broadcaster. Life Tandy graduated from Oxford University in 1921, and pursued graduate studies at Birkbeck College, in the University of London. He was employed at the Natural Hi ...

and his wife Maire née MacDermott, and was educated at the

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. In 1971 she married Neil Scott Wishart McIntosh. They had one son and a daughter but were later divorced. McIntosh worked for the

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as casting director between 1972 and 1977, as planning controller between 1977 and 1984, as senior administrator between 1986 and as associate producer in 1990. She has also been executive director of the

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from 1990 to 1996 and from 1997 to 2002. In 1997 she was appointed chief executive of the

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, but resigned after only five months due to ill health. She was made a

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as Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden on 3 August 1999 and made her maiden speech in the

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