Background
Her father was a self-employed painter and decorator, and her mother worked in the main local Plessey factory. She grew up in Beeston, Nottinghamshire and her parents still live in Beeston Rylands.
politician Member of the House of Lords
Her father was a self-employed painter and decorator, and her mother worked in the main local Plessey factory. She grew up in Beeston, Nottinghamshire and her parents still live in Beeston Rylands.
She attended Chilwell Comprehensive School (now called Chilwell School), gaining five O-levels, then went to Broxtowe College of Further Education in Beeston.
On 15 July 2014, Lady Stowell was appointed Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal in Her Majesty Government. Her grandfather was a Labour councillor on the former Beeston and Stapleford Urban District Council, becoming Mayor in 1953. After leaving school Stowell worked between 1986 and 1988 in the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence.
She was then employed at the British Embassy in the United States till 1991 before transferring to the Prime Minister"s Press Office where she served under John Major.
Stowell subsequently worked as Head of Corporate Affairs at the British Broadcasting Corporation, and before that as Head of Communications for three Chairmen of the British Broadcasting Corporation: Gavyn Davies, Michael Grade, and Michael Lyons. On 10 January 2011, Stowell was created a Life Peer as Baroness Stowell of Beeston, of Beeston in the County of Nottinghamshire, and she was introduced in the House of Lords on 13 January 2011, where she joined the Conservative benches.
On 18 September 2011, Lady Stowell was appointed a Baroness-in-Waiting to the Queen, following the promotion of the former Lord-in-Waiting Lord Taylor of Holbeach to be a junior Minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. In 2013, Lady Stowell was responsible for successfully steering the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill for England and Wales through the House of Lords.
She was subsequently promoted to the post of Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government and has defended overseas property investors in London.
lieutenant was as a result of her performance in this position that in the 1996 Birthday Honours she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire). In July 2014, she was appointed Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords, without being a member of the Cabinet, though she was allowed to attend its meetings Following the 2015 General Election, Baroness Stowell was promoted to a full member of the Cabinet.