Diana Maddock, Baroness Maddock

The Baroness Maddock
Official portrait, 2018
President of the Liberal Democrats
In office
1 January 1999 – 31 December 2000
Preceded byRobert Maclennan
Succeeded byNavnit 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 byRobert Adley
Succeeded byChristopher Chope
Personal details
Born
Diana Margaret Derbyshire[1]

(1945-05-19)19 May 1945
Croydon, Surrey, England
Died26 June 2020(2020-06-26) (aged 75)
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England
Political partyLiberal Democrat
Spouses
Bob Maddock
(m. 1966; div. 2000)
(m. 2001)
Children2
Alma materPortsmouth 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.

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