The Baroness Rawlings | |
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Baroness-in-waiting Government Whip | |
In office 11 May 2010 – 25 June 2012 | |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | The Baroness Crawley |
Succeeded by | The Lord Gardiner of Kimble |
Member of the European Parliament for Essex South West | |
In office 15 June 1989 – 9 June 1994 | |
Preceded by | Alexander Sherlock |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 5 October 1994 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | 27 January 1939 |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | |
Alma mater | University College London |
Patricia Elizabeth Rawlings, Baroness Rawlings (born 27 January 1939) is a Conservative Party politician and former frontbencher in the House of Lords. She was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1989 to 1994. She was Chairman of King's College London Council from 1998 to 2007, and was made a Fellow of King's College (FKC) in 2003. She was President of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations from 2002 to 2007, and President of the British Antique Dealers' Association 2005–2013. She is also a trustee of the Chevening Estate.[citation needed]