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Elspeth Howe

British peer (1932–2022)

Summary

British peer (1932–2022)

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	The Right Honourable
name	The Baroness Howe of Idlicote
honorific-suffix
image	Official portrait of Baroness Howe of Idlicote crop 2, 2019.jpg
caption	Official portrait, 2019
office1	Member of the House of Lords
status1	Lord Temporal
termlabel1	Life peerage
term_start1	29 June 2001
term_end1	2 June 2020
birth_name	Elspeth Rosamund Morton Shand
birth_date
birth_place	Marylebone, London, England
death_date
death_place	Idlicote, Warwickshire, England
spouse
children	3
father	Philip Morton Shand
relatives
education
nationality	British
party	Crossbencher

| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable | honorific-suffix =

Elspeth Rosamund Morton Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote, Baroness Howe of Aberavon, (née Shand; 8 February 1932 – 22 March 2022) was a British life peer and crossbench member of the House of Lords (2001–2020) who served in many capacities in public life.

As the widow of Geoffrey Howe, she was formerly known as Lady Howe of Aberavon before receiving a peerage in her own right.

She was the paternal half-aunt of Queen Camilla.

Early life

Born Elspeth R. M. Shand in Marylebone, London, she was the daughter of the writer Philip Morton Shand by his fourth wife, Sybil Mary Shand (née Sissons, formerly Slee).

As such, she was a half-aunt to Queen Camilla (née Shand, formerly Parker Bowles), whose father, Bruce Shand, was son of Philip Morton Shand by a previous marriage. She grew up in Bath, Somerset, and was educated at Wycombe Abbey, a private school for girls, and at the London School of Economics.

She married the rising politician Geoffrey Howe in 1953, and had three children.

Career

Howe was deputy chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission from 1975 to 1979, 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).

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, in her own right, becoming one of the first People's Peers. She and her husband Geoffrey Howe 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 "once, twice, three times a Lady".

Howe retired from Parliament on 2 June 2020.

Death

Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote died at her home in Idlicote, Warwickshire, on 22 March 2022, aged 90, having had cancer.

Arms

References

"Parliamentary career for Baroness Howe of Idlicote". UK Parliament.
"Index entry". ONS.
Langdon, Julia. (23 March 2022). "Lady Howe of Idlicote obituary".
(23 Mar 2022). "Baroness Howe of Idlicote obituary".
(10 October 2015). "Lord Howe of Aberavon obituary". [[The Guardian]].
{{London Gazette. (31 December 1998)
{{London Gazette. (13 July 2001)
(5 February 2003). "So much to discuss, so little time". The Guardian.
(2022-03-23). "Baroness Elspeth Howe dies aged 90". BBC News.

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