Jean Elizabeth Coussins, Baroness Coussins, FCIL (born 26 October 1950) is a British parliamentarian and an adviser on corporate responsibility.
The Baroness Coussins | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 23 March 2007 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 October 1950 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Crossbench |
Lady Coussins is a member of the Advertising Standards Authority, a member of the Better Regulation Commission, and was formerly Chief Executive of the Portman Group. She also served as the Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.[1]
Personal life
editJean Coussins was educated at Godolphin and Latymer School, London, and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she graduated with a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages in 1973.[2] She married Roger J. Hamilton in 1976, with whom she has two children; their marriage was dissolved in 1985.[2] Jean has one child with Trevor Carter.[3]
Honours
editIn February 2007, the House of Lords Appointments Commission recommended she should be conferred with a Life Peerage as a Crossbencher in Parliament; her title was gazetted as Baroness Coussins, of Whitehall Park in the London Borough of Islington on 23 March 2007.[4] She has been conferred Honorary Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Linguists[5] and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
In 2013, she was awarded the President's Medal by the British Academy.[6]
Arms
editLady Coussins' coat of arms is blazoned as follows:
  |
|
References
edit- ^ www.iol.org.uk Archived 19 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Coussins". Who's Who. Vol. 2019 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Shattering Illusions: West Indians in British Politics". Goodreads. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
- ^ "No. 58286". The London Gazette. 28 March 2007. p. 4511.
- ^ www.parliament.uk
- ^ "The British Academy President's Medal". British Academy. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 2187.
External links
editSources
edit- "Better Regulation Commission". Archived from the original on 29 September 2006.
- "The Guardian". London. 15 February 2007.