Ann Mallalieu, Baroness Mallalieu

Ann Mallalieu, Baroness Mallalieu QC (born 27 November 1945) is a British lawyer, Labour Party politician and president of the Countryside Alliance.[1]

The Right Honourable

The Baroness Mallalieu

QC
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
19 June 1991
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born27 November 1945 (1945-11-27) (age 75)
Political partyLabour
Spouse(s)Sir Timothy Cassel, Bt, QC

Family and early life

Lady Mallalieu comes from a distinguished political family. Her grandfather, Frederick Mallalieu, had been Liberal Member of Parliament for Colne Valley. He was succeeded in that seat by her uncle, Lance Mallalieu, later Labour MP for Brigg. Her father, Joseph Percival William Mallalieu (known as William), was Labour MP for Huddersfield East. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was the first female president of the Cambridge Union Society.[2]

Mallalieu was a barrister in the chambers 6 Kings Bench Walk.

Political career

Mallalieu fought Hitchin at both the February and October 1974 elections, but was defeated by the Conservative Ian Stewart on both occasions.

House of Lords

On 19 June 1991, Mallalieu was made a life peer as Baroness Mallalieu, of Studdridge in the County of Buckinghamshire.[3]

In 2004, she led the House of Lords opposition to the House of Commons' proposal to ban hunting with hounds.

In a House of Lords debate on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill on 31 January 2018 Baroness Mallalieu revealed she had voted for Britain to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum.[4]

Personal life

Ann Mallalieu was married to Sir Timothy Cassel, Bt, QC. They have two daughters: Bathsheba (b.1981) and Cosima (b.1984). The couple divorced in 2006.

Lady Mallalieu is a member of the Exmoor Hunt and the Devon and Somerset Staghounds.

Arms
Coat of arms of Ann Mallalieu, Baroness Mallalieu
Coronet
Coronet of a baron
Escutcheon
Azure on a Chevron Ermine between four Fleurs-de-lys Argent four Bezants on a Chief Ermines a Rose of the third barbed and seeded proper
Supporters
Dexter: a Horse Argent ; Sinister: a Fox-Hound proper, both gorged with a Torse argent and azure and each statant erect on a Field of Stubble with a Hedgerow that on the dexter having a Stile and Palings and that on the sinister a Gate with Palings all in perspective proper
Motto
Mal a lui qui mal a dit (Evil to him who evil speaks) [5]

References
  1. "Birthdays: Ann Mallalieu". The Times. London. 27 November 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
  2. Pinder, Rodney (14 November 1967). "Another Masculine Tradition Collapses At Cambridge". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. p. 9.
  3. "No. 52580". The London Gazette. 24 June 1991. p. 9653.
  4. https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2018-01-31/debates/6E9F9C26-27A7-4157-B6FF-115044A62448/EuropeanUnion(Withdrawal)Bill#contribution-238D051C-52FE-48D8-87C2-FB4E81FF5A13
  5. http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/lp1958%20m.htm


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