Diana Maddock, Baroness Maddock

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Diana Margaret Pearson Maddock, Baroness Maddock, Lady Beith (Template:Née Derbyshire; 19 May 1945 – 26 June 2020) was a British Liberal Democrat politician. She was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Christchurch in a 1993 by-election but lost the seat at the subsequent 1997 general election to Conservative Christopher Chope. She re-entered Parliament as a life peer as Baroness Maddock, of Christchurch in the County of Dorset, in 1997 where she remained until her death.

As of 2024, she and fellow Liberal Democrats, Dame Annette Brooke and Vikki Slade, and Labour's Jessica Toale, are the only women to date who represented parliamentary constituencies in Dorset.

Early life and early careerEdit

Diana Margaret Derbyshire was born in Croydon on 19 May 1945, to Margaret (Evans) and Reginald Derbyshire.<ref name="WHO">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name = ODNB>Template:Cite ODNB</ref> She spent her early years in Croydon and Wantage, but after her parents divorced, she was raised by her mother in Lymington, in Hampshire.<ref name = ODNB/> She was educated at Brockenhurst Grammar School, Shenstone Training College, and Portsmouth Polytechnic (now the University of Portsmouth) and was a teacher of English as a foreign language.<ref name = ODNB/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She married Bob Maddock in 1966.<ref name = ODNB/> The couple lived in Sweden for a time, and she credited her time living there as an influence on her political beliefs<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and went on to serve as President of the Anglo-Swedish Society from 1999 until her death.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They returned to England in 1972, and had two daughters.<ref name = ODNB/>

Political careerEdit

Maddock joined the Liberal Party in 1976, and was elected to Southampton City Council in 1984.<ref name = ODNB/> Maddock was not particularly political in her early life. She highlights her initial involvement came when she was pregnant and approached by a canvasser who convinced her to join the Liberal Party having voted for them previously.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> As she had stopped work, she had more time to be civically engaged which expanded to the point where she became involved with the Association of Liberal Councillors which promoted active engagement with community groups and she realised she enjoyed campaigning.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She became leader of the Liberal Democrat group on the council in 1986.<ref name = ODNB/> While on Southampton City Council Maddock's primary areas of interest were housing and energy conservation, and she continued her work in these areas throughout her political career.<ref name = ODNB/>

Maddock unsuccessfully contested Southampton Test at the 1992 general election, coming third.<ref name = ODNB/> She was elected as Member of Parliament for Christchurch at a by-election in 1993 that was caused by the death of Robert Adley, but lost the seat at the 1997 election to the Conservative candidate Christopher Chope.<ref name = ODNB/> During her time in parliament, she was the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for housing.<ref name = ODNB/>

She was created a life peer as Baroness Maddock, of Christchurch in the County of Dorset on 30 October 1997.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> From 1998 to 2000, she was President of the Liberal Democrats.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2005, she was elected a member of Northumberland County Council for Berwick North Division and in 2007 also to Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Council for Edward Ward.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Maddock did not re-stand for election to the County Council at the expiry of her term in 2008<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Borough Council was abolished in 2009 and absorbed into Northumberland County Council.

Later lifeEdit

Her marriage to Bob Maddock ended in divorce in 2000.<ref name = ODNB/> She married secondly, to Alan Beith, then-MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed, in 2001.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She and her husband were one of the few couples who each held peerages in their own right. She died from breast cancer on 26 June 2020, aged 75, at her home in Berwick-upon Tweed, Northumberland.<ref name = ODNB/><ref>Baroness Diana Maddock dead: Liberal Democrat peer dies aged 75, party confirms</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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External linksEdit

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Baroness Maddock profile at the site of Liberal Democrats

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