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The Right Honourable
The Baroness Hooper
CMG DSG FRSA FRGS
The Right Honourable The Baroness Hooper CMG DSG FRSA FRGS
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
	In office; 28 July 1989 – 14 April 1992
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher; John Major
Preceded by	new appointment
Succeeded by	The Baroness Cumberlege
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy
	In office; 26 July 1988 – 28 July 1989
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	new appointment
Succeeded by	Tony Baldry
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science
	In office; 13 June 1987 – 26 July 1988
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	George Walden
Succeeded by	John Butcher
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 10 June 1985; Life Peerage
Member of the European Parliament ; for Liverpool
	In office; 17 July 1979 – 16 July 1984
Preceded by	Constituency created
Succeeded by	Kenneth Stewart
Personal details
Born	25 May 1939 (age 85)
Political party	Conservative

Gloria Dorothy Hooper, Baroness Hooper, CMG, DSG, FRSA, FRGS (born 25 May 1939) is a British lawyer and a Conservative life peer in the House of Lords.

The daughter of Frederick and Frances (née Maloney) Hooper, she was educated at La Sainte Union Convent High School, Southampton, and at the Royal Ballet School. She attended the University of Southampton, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in law in 1960 and at Universidad Central del Ecuador, where she was a Rotary Foundation Fellow. Baroness Hooper opened The British School of Quito in September 1995.

Legal background

Hooper was assistant to the chief registrar of John Lewis Partnership between 1960 and 1961 and editor in current law of Sweet & Maxwell, Law Publishers between 1961 and 1962. From 1962 to 1967, she was information officer, to the Winchester City Council and from 1967 to 1972, assistant solicitor with Taylor and Humbert. In 1972–73, Hooper was legal adviser to Slater Walker France S.A. Between 1974 and 1984, she was partner with Taylor and Humbert (now Taylor, Wessing). ^{[citation needed]}

Political career

An active member of the Conservative Party, Hooper was the party's candidate for Liverpool in the 1979 European Parliament election. Although the seat was thought to be safe Labour, Hooper won it by 7,227 over Labour's Terry Harrison, a member of the Militant group.^[1] Comparing the election with the total votes cast in the 1979 general election five weeks previously, the swing to the Conservatives was 11% in Liverpool, as against 5% nationally.^[2]^[3] Hooper was defeated in the 1984 election in the Merseyside West constituency.^[4]

Affiliations

Anguilla All Party Parliamentary Group, co-chair
Law Society of England and Wales, member
Member of the advisory board, Polar Research and Policy Initiative^[5]
President of the British Educational Suppliers Association
Vice-president of Canning House (Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Council)
President of Waste Watch
President of the European Foundation For Heritage Skills
Institute for the Study of the Americas (University of London), councilmember
President of Good Guy's Cancer Appeal
President of the Anglo Latin-American Foundation
President of the Friends of Colombia for Social Aid
President of the Central America Business Council (CABC)

Trusteeships and Fellowships

Trustee, Royal Academy of Dance
Trustee, Centre for Global Energy Studies
Trustee, National Museums and Galleries of Merseyside Development Trust
Trustee/Fellow, Industry and Parliament Trust (and fellow)
Trustee, The Tablet
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
Fellow, Royal Geographical Society.

Peerage

She was invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2002 New Year's Honours^[6] and on 10 June 1985, she was created a life peer with the title Baroness Hooper, of Liverpool and St James's in the City of Westminster.^[7] She was created a Dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great. ^[when?]

References

^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 11 August 2016.
^ Comfort, Nicholas (12 June 1979). "Tories biggest national group in Europe". The Telegraph.
^ "Previous UK European elections". BBC News. 2 June 1999. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
^ "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 10 August 2016.
^ "The Rt Hon Baroness Hooper of Liverpool".
^ "No. 56430". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2001. p. 3.
^ "No. 50151". The London Gazette. 13 June 1985. p. 8123.

Sources

"DodOnline". Archived from the original on 6 April 2007. Retrieved 2 April 2007.

[1] "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 11 August 2016.

[2] Comfort, Nicholas (12 June 1979). "Tories biggest national group in Europe". The Telegraph.

[3] "Previous UK European elections". BBC News. 2 June 1999. Retrieved 10 August 2016.

[4] "David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results". Retrieved 10 August 2016.

[5] "The Rt Hon Baroness Hooper of Liverpool".

[6] "No. 56430". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2001. p. 3.

[7] "No. 50151". The London Gazette. 13 June 1985. p. 8123.

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Gloria Hooper, Baroness Hooper

Legal background

Political career

Affiliations

Trusteeships and Fellowships

Peerage

References

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