Editing Elspeth Howe (section)

==Career==
Howe was deputy chairman of the [[Equal Opportunities Commission (United Kingdom)|Equal Opportunities Commission]] from 1975 to 1979,<ref name="Langdon 2022" /> and worked in other capacities from 1980. She was later chair of the [[Broadcasting Standards Commission]]. In the [[1999 New Year Honours]] she was appointed a Commander of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (CBE).<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=55354 |date=31 December 1998 |page=8 |supp=y}}</ref> Lady Howe was a [[Justice of the Peace]] in Inner London from 1964 until her retirement from the Bench in 2002. She sat in the Youth Court at Camberwell where she was a bench chairman.

On 29 June 2001, at the age of 69, she was made a [[life peer]], as '''Baroness Howe of Idlicote''', of [[Shipston-on-Stour]] in the County of Warwickshire,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=56274 |date=13 July 2001 |page=8309}}</ref> in her own right, becoming one of the first [[People's Peers]]. She and her husband were one of the few couples each of whom held a peerage in their own right. Having already been styled Lady Howe by dint of her husband's knighthood and then his peerage, it was quipped when she received her own peerage that she was "[[Three Times a Lady|once, twice, three times a Lady]]".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hoggart|first1=Simon|title=So much to discuss, so little time|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/feb/05/houseofcommons.constitution|access-date=1 July 2016|work=The Guardian|date=5 February 2003|archive-date=3 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603195555/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/feb/05/houseofcommons.constitution|url-status=live}}</ref>

Howe retired from Parliament on 2 June 2020.<ref name="3610/career" /> She died at her home in [[Idlicote]], Warwickshire, on 22 March 2022, aged 90, having had cancer.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2022-03-23|title=Baroness Elspeth Howe dies aged 90|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-60849567|access-date=2023-04-17}}</ref>