Susan Garden, Baroness Garden of Frognal


Susan Elizabeth Garden, Baroness Garden of Frognal, Baroness Garden PC is a British Liberal Democrat politician who, since 2018, serves as a Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords. Garden ran in the 2016 election to replace Baroness D'Souza as Lord Speaker, one of the two primary offices of the UK Parliament; Garden came second in that election to Lord Fowler.

Career

Educated at Westonbirt School and St Hilda's College, Oxford she became a teacher, becoming Hon FCIL in 2012.
Lady Garden stood as the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Finchley and Golders Green in 2005. In September 2007 she was created a Life Peer as Baroness Garden of Frognal, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden.
Lady Garden is a former Government Whip and Spokesperson for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and for the Department for Education.

Personal life

Garden married Timothy Garden in 1965, and they had two daughters. Lord Garden died on 9 August 2007.

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