The Baroness Perry of Southwark | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 16 July 1991 – 26 May 2016 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Pauline Welch 15 October 1931 |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative Party[1] |
Spouse |
George Walter Perry (m. 1952) |
Occupation | Politician, University President |
President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge | |
In office 1994–2001 | |
Preceded by | Dame Anne Warburton |
Succeeded by | Dame 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]