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Celia Thomas, Baroness Thomas of Winchester

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The Baroness Thomas
of Winchester
Official portrait
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
15 June 2006
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1945-10-14) 14 October 1945 (age 79)
Political partyLiberal Democrats

Celia Marjorie Thomas, Baroness Thomas of Winchester, MBE (born 14 October 1945 in Winchester, Hants) was a founding member of the Liberal Party in Winchester in the 1960s.

Thomas was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1985 Birthday Honours.[1]

On 26 May 2006, she was created a life peer with the title Baroness Thomas of Winchester, of Winchester in the County of Hampshire,[2] and she sits as a Liberal Democrat.

Thomas is a Trustee of the charity Muscular Dystrophy UK, having been a long term sufferer.[3] She is also Patron of Driving Mobility, the national charity that provides specialist driving and mobility assessment centres.

References

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  1. ^ "No. 50154". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 1985. p. 16.
  2. ^ "No. 57997". The London Gazette. 1 June 2006. p. 7521.
  3. ^ "Our Trustees - Muscular Dystrophy UK". www.musculardystrophyuk.org. Retrieved 23 April 2021.