The Baroness Maddock | |
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 Official portrait, 2018 | |
| President of the Liberal Democrats | |
| In office 1 January 1999 – 31 December 2000 | |
| Preceded by | Robert Maclennan |
| Succeeded by | Navnit Dholakia |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 30 October 1997 – 26 June 2020 Life peerage | |
| Member of Parliament for Christchurch | |
| In office 29 July 1993 – 8 April 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Robert Adley |
| Succeeded by | Christopher Chope |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Diana Margaret Derbyshire[1] 19 May 1945 Croydon, Surrey, England |
| Died | 26 June 2020 (aged 75) Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England |
| Political party | Liberal Democrat |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Portsmouth University |
Diana Margaret Pearson Maddock, Baroness Maddock, Lady Beith (née Derbyshire; 19 May 1945 – 26 June 2020) was a British Liberal Democrat politician. She was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Christchurch in a 1993 by-election but lost the seat at the subsequent 1997 general election to Conservative Christopher Chope. She re-entered Parliament as a life peer as Baroness Maddock, of Christchurch in the County of Dorset, in 1997 where she remained until her death.
As of 2024, she and fellow Liberal Democrats, Dame Annette Brooke and Vikki Slade, and Labour's Jessica Toale, are the only women to date who represented parliamentary constituencies in Dorset.