Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton
Ellen Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton, DBE, DL has been a Conservative Party life peer in the British House of Lords since 2010.
She was a Councillor with Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council from 1986 and was the Chairman of the Local Government Association until June 2011.
Biography
Born as Ellen Margaret Midgley in 1942 to John and Evelyn Midgley, she attended Hanson Grammar School and the Balls Park Teacher Training College, where she achieved a Certificate in Education. She worked as a schoolteacher. In 1969, she married John Eaton, with whom she has a son and a daughter.Political career
- Member, Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council, since 1986
- Leader of Conservative Group 1995–
- Council Leader 2000–06
- Former chair: Bradford Local Strategic Partnership Board, Bradford Cultural Consortium
- Former co-chair, Bradford Safer Communities Partnership; Director: Bradford Centre Regeneration Company, Leeds Bradford International Airport
- Member, Yorkshire and Humber Assembly
- Local Government Association: Vice-chairman, Conservative Group, Chairman, Conservative Group, 2008–11
- Member, Committee of the Regions, 2003–06
- Deputy Lieutenant for West Yorkshire since 2008
- Chairman, Local Government Association, 2008–11
Affiliations
- Chairman and Trustee, Near Neighbours
- Trustee, Angelus Foundation
- Trustee, Cottingley Town Hall, Cottingley, Bradford, West Yorkshire
- Member, Common Sense Group as anti-"woke" group within the Conservative Party
- Member of Advisory Group, Marston Holdings
Honours
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2003 Birthday Honours.
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 New Year Honours
- Baroness Eaton, of Cottingley, in the County of West Yorkshire on 21 July 2010
- Honorary Doctor of Laws of the University of Bradford - December 2012