The Baroness Howells of St Davids | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 21 July 1999 – 10 January 2019 | |
Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire | |
In office 2009–2014 | |
Vice Chancellor | Les Ebdon Bill Rammell |
Preceded by | Sir Robin Biggam |
Succeeded by | John Bercow |
Personal details | |
Born | St Davids, Grenada | 10 January 1931
Political party | Labour |
Spouse | John Charles Howells (m. 1955) |
Children | 2 |
Education | St Joseph's College, Reading South West London College |
Alma mater | University of the District of Columbia |
Rosalind Patricia-Anne Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids OBE COG (born 10 January 1931) is a British Labour politician, who formerly served as member of the House of Lords.[1]
Having been awarded an OBE in the 1994 New Year's Honours,[2] she was made a Life peer as Baroness Howells of St Davids, of Charlton in the London Borough of Greenwich on 21 July 1999.[3] The name St Davids refers to the parish in Grenada where she was brought up, to the south-east of the island. She retired from the House of Lords on 10 January 2019.[4]