Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton


Ellen Margaret Eaton, Baroness Eaton, DBE, DL has been a Conservative Party life peer in the British House of Lords since 2010.
She has been a Councillor with Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council since 1986 and was the Chairman of the Local Government Association until June 2011.

Biography

Born as Ellen Margaret Midgley in 1942 to John and Evelyn Midgley, she attended Hanson Grammar School and the Balls Park Teacher Training College. She worked as a schoolteacher. In 1969, she married John Eaton, with whom she has a son and a daughter.

Political career