Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids

The Baroness Howells
of St Davids
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
21 July 1999 – 10 January 2019
Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire
In office
2009–2014
Vice ChancellorLes Ebdon
Bill Rammell
Preceded bySir Robin Biggam
Succeeded byJohn Bercow
Personal details
Born (1931-01-10) 10 January 1931 (age 93)
St Davids, Grenada
Political partyLabour
SpouseJohn Charles Howells (m. 1955)
Children2
EducationSt Joseph's College, Reading
South West London College
Alma materUniversity of the District of Columbia

Rosalind Patricia-Anne Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids OBE COG (born 10 January 1931) is a British Labour politician, who formerly served as member of the House of Lords.[1]

Having been awarded an OBE in the 1994 New Year's Honours,[2] she was made a Life peer as Baroness Howells of St Davids, of Charlton in the London Borough of Greenwich on 21 July 1999.[3] The name St Davids refers to the parish in Grenada where she was brought up, to the south-east of the island. She retired from the House of Lords on 10 January 2019.[4]

  1. ^ [1]Hansard: "Retirement of a Member: Baroness Howells of St Davids"
  2. ^ "No. 53527". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1993. p. 12.
  3. ^ "No. 55564". The London Gazette. 27 July 1999. p. 8076.
  4. ^ "Baroness Howells of St Davids". UK Parliament. Retrieved 31 October 2019.

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