Gloria Hooper, Baroness Hooper

The Baroness Hooper
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
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.