Ellen Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton,
DBE,
DL (born 1 June 1942,
Bradford
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,
England) has been a
Conservative Party life peer in the British
House of Lords since 2010.
She has been a Councillor with
Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council since 1986 and was the Chairman of the
Local Government Association
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until June 2011.
Biography
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.
Political career
* 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
Affiliations
* Chairman and Trustee, Near Neighbours (national registered charity)
* Trustee, Angelus Foundation (national registered charity for drugs education)
* Trustee,
Cottingley Town Hall, Cottingley, Bradford, West Yorkshire
* Member,
Common Sense Group as anti-"
woke" group within the Conservative Party
Honours
* Officer of the
Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the
2003 Birthday Honours
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United Kingdom
Knight Bachelo ...
.
* Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the
2010 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 2010 were announced on 31 December 2009 in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Barbados, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Saint Lucia, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Christopher and NevisSaint Christ ...
* 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
References
External links
BBC Democracy Profile
1942 births
Living people
Councillors in Bradford
Conservative Party (UK) life peers
Life peeresses created by Elizabeth II
Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Deputy Lieutenants of West Yorkshire
Date of birth missing (living people)
Schoolteachers from Yorkshire
Women councillors in England
Chairs of the Local Government Association
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