Gloria Hooper, Baroness Hooper

This article is about the British lawyer and politician. For the Italian sprinter, see Gloria Hooper (athlete).

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Hooper
CMG DSG FRSA FRGS
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
In office
28 July 1989 – 14 April 1992
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
John Major
Preceded bynew appointment
Succeeded byThe Baroness Cumberlege
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy
In office
26 July 1988 – 28 July 1989
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded bynew appointment
Succeeded byTony Baldry
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science
In office
13 June 1987 – 26 July 1988
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded byGeorge Walden
Succeeded byJohn Butcher
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office
10 June 1985
Life Peerage
Member of the European Parliament
for Liverpool
In office
17 July 1979 – 16 July 1984
Preceded byConstituency created
Succeeded byKenneth Stewart
Personal details
Born (1939-05-25) 25 May 1939 (age 85)
Political partyConservative

Gloria Dorothy Hooper, Baroness Hooper, CMG, DSG, FRSA, FRGS (born 25 May 1939) is a British lawyer and a Conservative life peer in the House of Lords.

The daughter of Frederick and Frances (née Maloney) Hooper, she was educated at La Sainte Union Convent High School, Southampton, and at the Royal Ballet School. She attended the University of Southampton, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in law in 1960 and at Universidad Central del Ecuador, where she was a Rotary Foundation Fellow. Baroness Hooper opened The British School of Quito in September 1995.

Hooper was assistant to the chief registrar of John Lewis Partnership between 1960 and 1961 and editor in current law of Sweet & Maxwell, Law Publishers between 1961 and 1962. From 1962 to 1967, she was information officer, to the Winchester City Council and from 1967 to 1972, assistant solicitor with Taylor and Humbert. In 1972–73, Hooper was legal adviser to Slater Walker France S.A. Between 1974 and 1984, she was partner with Taylor and Humbert (now Taylor, Wessing). [citation needed]

Political career

An active member of the Conservative Party, Hooper was the party's candidate for Liverpool in the 1979 European Parliament election. Although the seat was thought to be safe Labour, Hooper won it by 7,227 over Labour's Terry Harrison, a member of the Militant group.[1] Comparing the election with the total votes cast in the 1979 general election five weeks previously, the swing to the Conservatives was 11% in Liverpool, as against 5% nationally.[2][3] Hooper was defeated in the 1984 election in the Merseyside West constituency.[4]

Affiliations

  • Anguilla All Party Parliamentary Group, co-chair
  • Law Society of England and Wales, member
  • Member of the advisory board, Polar Research and Policy Initiative[5]
  • President of the British Educational Suppliers Association
  • Vice-president of Canning House (Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Council)
  • President of Waste Watch
  • President of the European Foundation For Heritage Skills
  • Institute for the Study of the Americas (University of London), councilmember
  • President of Good Guy's Cancer Appeal
  • President of the Anglo Latin-American Foundation
  • President of the Friends of Colombia for Social Aid
  • President of the Central America Business Council (CABC)

Trusteeships and Fellowships

Peerage

She was invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2002 New Year's Honours[6] and on 10 June 1985, she was created a life peer with the title Baroness Hooper, of Liverpool and St James's in the City of Westminster.[7] She was created a Dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great. [when?]

References

  1. ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  2. ^ Comfort, Nicholas (12 June 1979). "Tories biggest national group in Europe". The Telegraph.
  3. ^ "Previous UK European elections". BBC News. 2 June 1999. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  4. ^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  5. ^ "The Rt Hon Baroness Hooper of Liverpool".
  6. ^ "No. 56430". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2001. p. 3.
  7. ^ "No. 50151". The London Gazette. 13 June 1985. p. 8123.

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