Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton

For other people with the same name, see Margaret Eaton.

Ellen Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton, DBE, DL (born 1 June 1942, Bradford, England) has been a Conservative Party life peer in the British House of Lords since 2010.^[1]

Official Portrait, 2022

She was a Councillor with Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council from 1986 and was the Chairman of the Local Government Association until June 2011.^[2]

Biography

Born as Ellen Margaret Midgley in 1942 to John and Evelyn (née Smith) Midgley, she attended Hanson Grammar School and the Balls Park Teacher Training College, where she achieved a Certificate in Education. She worked as a schoolteacher. In 1969, she married John Eaton, with whom she has a son and a daughter.

Political career

• Member, Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council, since 1986^[3]
• Leader of Conservative Group 1995–
• Council Leader 2000–06
• Former chair: Bradford Local Strategic Partnership Board, Bradford Cultural Consortium
• Former co-chair, Bradford Safer Communities Partnership; Director: Bradford Centre Regeneration Company, Leeds Bradford International Airport
• Member, Yorkshire and Humber Assembly ^[when?]
• Local Government Association: Vice-chairman, Conservative Group, Chairman, Conservative Group, 2008–11
• Member, Committee of the Regions, 2003–06
• Deputy Lieutenant for West Yorkshire since 2008
• Chairman, Local Government Association, 2008–11

Affiliations

• Chairman and Trustee, Near Neighbours (national registered charity)
• Trustee, Angelus Foundation (national registered charity for drugs education)
• Trustee, Cottingley Town Hall, Cottingley, Bradford, West Yorkshire
• Member, Common Sense Group as anti-"woke^{[broken anchor]}" group within the Conservative Party^[4]
• Member of Advisory Group, Marston Holdings (bailiffs)^[5]

Honours

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 Birthday Honours.^[6]
• Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours^[7][8]
• Baroness Eaton, of Cottingley, in the County of West Yorkshire on 21 July 2010^[9]
• Honorary Doctor of Laws of the University of Bradford - December 2012^[5]

Coat of arms of Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton

Escutcheon Argent three escallops in pale a sinister canton in chief and a dexter canton in base Vert. Supporters On either side a hierocosphinx with a bull's tail Argent armed beaked and the tail tufted Or winged Vert the wing charged with two roses Argent barbed and seeded Or murally gorged and holding in the interior foreclaws a length of vine stalk leaved Vert. Motto Deo Dante Dedi[10]