Diana Maddock, Baroness Maddock

Diana Margaret Maddock, Baroness Maddock and Lady Beith ( born January 31, 1947) is a British Liberal Democrat politician.

Maddock studied at the University of Portsmouth and was group leader of the Liberal Democrats on the city council of Southampton. In the by-election in 1993 in Christchurch, caused by the death of the parliamentarian Robert Adley, she was elected to the lower house, lost her seat in the parliamentary election in 1997 to the Conservative candidate Christopher Chope. In 1997, she was raised as Baroness Maddock for Life Peeress.

She was elected to the city council of Berwick -upon- Tweed in 2005. This was dissolved in 2009, when the municipality was merged with the newly formed Administration Community Northumberland County. In the election in May 2008 its successor candidate of the Liberal Democrats, was defeated.

In the years 1998 to 2000 she was President of the Liberal Democrats.

She is married to Sir Alan Beith, MP for the constituency of Berwick -upon- Tweed. You and your husband are among the few couples who both carry a title in its own right.

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• Miss Diana Derbyshire (1947 -? )
• Mrs Diana Maddock (? -1997 )
• The Rt Hon The Baroness Maddock (1997-2000)
• The Rt Hon The Baroness Maddock, Mrs. Beith (2000-2008)
• The Rt Hon The Baroness Maddock, Lady Beith (2008 -)