Doreen Lawrence

The Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon
Official portrait, 2023
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-ChancellorDominic Shellard
Andy Collop (interim)
Preceded byWaheed Alli
Succeeded byAkram Khan
Personal details
Born
Doreen Delceita Graham

(1952-10-24) 24 October 1952 (age 72)
Clarendon, Colony of Jamaica
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
Spouse
Neville Lawrence
(m. 1972; div. 1999)
Children3, including Stephen Lawrence
Alma materUniversity of Greenwich
OccupationCampaigner

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]

  1. ^ "Doreen Lawrence". Desert Island Discs. 10 June 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Doreen Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE". Murray Edwards College – University of Cambridge. 31 January 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  3. ^ Lawrence, Doreen (22 April 2019). "Doreen Lawrence". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 April 2021.