Joan Hanham, Baroness Hanham
Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham, CBE (née Spark; born 23 September 1939) is a former member of the House of Lords. She sat as a Conservative.
The Right Honourable The Baroness Hanham CBE | |
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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | |
In office 12 May 2010 – 7 October 2013 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Prime Minister | David Cameron |
Preceded by | The Lord McKenzie of Luton |
Succeeded by | The Baroness Stowell of Beeston |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 27 July 1999 – 22 July 2020 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Joan Brownlow Spark 23 September 1939 United Kingdom |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | Ian (or Iain) William Fergusson Hanham (m. 1964) |
She was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2010 to 2013, and was leader of the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council from 1989. She was succeeded by Cllr Merrick Cockell, who became leader in April 2000.
She was made a Life peer as Baroness Hanham, of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on 15 July 1999. That same year, Hanham was a candidate for the re-run Conservative nomination to be Mayor of London, losing to Steve Norris. She retired from the House of Lords on 22 July 2020.
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