The Baroness Thomas of Winchester | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 15 June 2006 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | 14 October 1945 |
Political party | Liberal Democrats |
Celia Marjorie Thomas, Baroness Thomas of Winchester, MBE (born 14 October 1945 in Winchester, Hants) was a founding member of the Liberal Party in Winchester in the 1960s.
Thomas was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1985 Birthday Honours. [1]
On 26 May 2006, she was created a life peer with the title Baroness Thomas of Winchester, of Winchester in the County of Hampshire, [2] and she sits as a Liberal Democrat.
Thomas is a Trustee of the charity Muscular Dystrophy UK, having been a long term sufferer. [3] She is also Patron of Driving Mobility, the national charity that provides specialist driving and mobility assessment centres.
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