Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark

Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark (* October 15, 1931 as Pauline Welch) is a British educator, conservative politician and member of the House of Lords. She had in England held the rank of Chief Inspector of Schools.

Perry attended the Wolverhampton Girls High School and Girton College. In 1952 she married the working at Oxford University lecturer George Perry, with whom she has three sons and a daughter. She was a teacher and lecturer in philosophy in England, Canada and the United States.

1970 Perry began the school inspectorate, which was located in the Department for Education and Skills at the time to work. In 1981, she was chief school inspector. In 1986 she became Vice- Chancellor of London South Bank University and the first woman to head a British university. She has held several functions in the university sector, including that of the Prokanzlers at the University of Surrey and the President of Lucy Cavendish College.

Perry was also working for the Southwark Cathedral, the Church of England and the City of London. Perry was chairman of a commission of inquiry that examined the activities of the Crown Appointment Commission.

Perry was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 1991. In the same year she was appointed as Baroness Perry of Southwark ' of Charlbury in Oxfordshire for Life Peer. Perry from 2003 to 2005 Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and sat from 2003 to 2005 the working group on ethics of experiments on animals. In addition, Perry was chairman of the Commission to the second reorganization of the London boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham and chairman of the Commission for academies and free schools in the London borough of Wandsworth.

Perry, 2007 was Vice Chairman of a commission within the Conservative Party, which dealt with the public service. 2011 Perry was appointed Whip of the Conservative Group in the House of Lords.