The Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon | |
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Member of the House of Lords | |
Lord Temporal | |
as a life peer 15 October 2013 | |
Chancellor of De Montfort University | |
In office 22 January 2016 – 31 January 2020 | |
Vice-Chancellor | Dominic Shellard Andy Collop (interim) |
Preceded by | Waheed Alli |
Succeeded by | Akram Khan |
Personal details | |
Born | Doreen Delceita Graham 24 October 1952 Clarendon, Colony of Jamaica |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Labour |
Spouse |
Neville Lawrence
(m. 1972; div. 1999) |
Children | 3, including Stephen Lawrence |
Alma mater | University of Greenwich |
Occupation | Campaigner |
Doreen Delceita Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE (née Graham; born 1952), is a British Jamaican campaigner and the mother of Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager who was murdered in a racist attack in South East London in 1993. She promoted reforms of the police service and founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. Lawrence was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to community relations in 2003, and was created a life peer in 2013.[2]
On the first national Stephen Lawrence Day on 22 April 2019, she described how she had worked for 26 years hoping for "an inclusive society for everyone to live their best life, regardless of gender, race, sexuality, religion, disability or background".[3]