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Carlyn Chisholm, Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen

Caroline Elizabeth Chisholm, Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen (born 23 December 1951), is a British life peeress and member of the House of Lords, where she currently sits as a non-affiliated member. In 2022, she was appointed as one of six Queen's companions to Queen Camilla.


The Right HonourableThe Baroness Chisholmof Owlpen
Official portrait, 2020
Acting15 September 2021 – 4 February 2022
Boris Johnson
Joanna Penn, Baroness Penn
Joanna Penn, Baroness Penn
In office12 August 2019 – 13 February 2020
Boris Johnson
The Baroness Goldie
The Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
In office11 June 2017 – 29 March 2018
Theresa May
The Lord O'Shaughnessy
The Baroness Manzoor
In office14 May 2015 – 21 December 2016
David CameronTheresa May
The Baroness Williams of Trafford
The Lord O'Shaughnessy
Lord Temporal
Life peerage 16 September 2014
(1951-12-23) 23 December 1951
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Caroline Elizabeth Chisholm, Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen (born 23 December 1951), is a British life peeress and member of the House of Lords, where she currently sits as a non-affiliated member. In 2022, she was appointed as one of six Queen's companions to Queen Camilla.

The only daughter of John Wyndham, 1st Baron Egremont, and Pamela Wyndham, Lady Egremont, her elder brother, Max Egremont, succeeded to the family titles.

The Hon. Carlyn Wyndham married in 1976, Colin Chisholm, son of Archibald Chisholm CBE. They have two sons and one daughter.

She was made a life peer on 16 September 2014 as Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen, of Owlpen in the County of Gloucestershire. She sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative Party peer. She has been a baroness-in-waiting (a type of government whip) from 2015 to 2016, 2017 to 2018, 2019 to 2020, and 2021 to 2022. She was a Lords spokesperson for the Cabinet Office in 2016.

In 2022, she became one of the six ladies appointed as "Queen's companions" to Queen Camilla. At the same time, she resigned the Conservative whip to sit as a non-affiliated member.

With her husband, she was invited to ride in the King's procession at Royal Ascot 2023.

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United Kingdom6 May 2023King Charles III Coronation Medal
  • Earl of Egremont

  • Johnson ministry

  • Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen – UK Parliament

  • Burke's Peerage & Baronetage

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