Baroness Northover Peer

Address:
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW

BIOGRAPHY

Lindsay Northover is the Liberal Democrats Spokesperson on International Development in the House of Lords.

Lindsay Northover became a Life Peer in May 2000.   She served as health spokesperson 2000-2002, and then became lead Spokesperson on International Development.  She served on the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Embryonic Stem Cell Research from 2000-1 and the House of Lords Sub-Committee on the European Union on Foreign Affairs, International Development and Defence 2003-2004.

She is Vice-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Aid, Debt and Trade, Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development, Executive Member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Africa, Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cuba, invited member of Cancer Research UK’s Parliamentary Champions Group, invited member of the Assembly of Women Ministers at the Kennedy School of Government, Harnard University and Patron of Breast Cancer Campaign.

Lindsay was educated at Brighton & Hove High School and St. Anne’s College, Oxford, where she received an MA in Modern History.  She was then awarded an English-Speaking Union Fellowship to study at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania, where she gained an MA and PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science.

From 1980 to 1983, Lindsay was a Research Fellow at University College London and St. Mark’s Hospital, and from 1983 to 1984 she was a Fellow at St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School.  In 1984 she was appointed as Lecturer in the History of Twentieth Century Medicine at University College London and the Wellcome Institute.

In the 1983 and 1987 General Elections Lindsay contested Welwyn Hatfield for the SDP/Liberal Alliance.  In 1997 she stood for the Liberal Democrats in Basildon.

She was a member of the committee which negotiated the Liberal/SDP merger, Chair of the SDP Health and Welfare Association and of the SDP Parliamentary Candidates’ Association.  She served as Chair of the Liberal Democrats Parliamentary Candidates’ Association and was Chair of Women Liberal Democrats. 

Lindsay is married to John Northover, who is a surgeon at St Mark’s Hospital, London, and Professor of Intestinal Surgery at Imperial College, London.  They have three children, two sons and a daughter.