Joan Hanham, Baroness Hanham

The Baroness Hanham
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
In office
12 May 2010 – 7 October 2013
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron[1]
Preceded byThe Lord McKenzie of Luton
Succeeded byThe Baroness Stowell of Beeston
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
27 July 1999 – 22 July 2020
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
Joan Brownlow Spark

(1939-09-23) 23 September 1939 (age 85)
United Kingdom
Political partyConservative
SpouseIan (or Iain) William Fergusson Hanham (m. 1964)

Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham, CBE (née Spark; born 23 September 1939) is a former member of the House of Lords. She sat as a Conservative.

She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2010 to 2013,[2] and was leader of the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council from 1989. She was succeeded by Cllr Merrick Cockell, who became leader in April 2000.[3]

She was made a Life peer as Baroness Hanham, of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on 15 July 1999.[4] That same year, Hanham was a candidate for the re-run Conservative nomination to be Mayor of London, losing to Steve Norris. She retired from the House of Lords on 22 July 2020.[5]

  1. ^ "Dr Iain Hanham". From the Hornet's Nest. 18 April 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Biography: Baroness Hanham CBE". Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  3. ^ Cllr Merrick Cockell – Profile – Conservative Party<Archived 2014-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "No. 55559". The London Gazette. 21 July 1999. p. 7857.
  5. ^ "Baroness Hanham". UK Parliament. Retrieved 22 July 2020.