Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark

The Baroness Perry of Southwark
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
16 July 1991 – 26 May 2016
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
Pauline Welch

(1931-10-15) 15 October 1931 (age 93)
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative Party[1]
Spouse
George Walter Perry
(m. 1952)
OccupationPolitician, University President
President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
In office
1994–2001
Preceded byDame Anne Warburton
Succeeded byDame Veronica Sutherland

Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark (née Welch; born 15 October 1931) is an educator, educationist, academic, and activist. She is a Conservative politician and was for 25 years a working member of the British House of Lords. In 1981 she became Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England. In 1986 she became Vice-Chancellor of South Bank Polytechnic, and serving during its transition to a university, became the first woman in history to run a British university.[2]

  1. ^ "Baronness Perry". Parliament of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  2. ^ Profile, bbc.co.uk; accessed 1 April 2016.