Laura Wyld, Baroness Wyld
The Baroness Wyld | |
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 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 26 June 2017 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 January 1978 |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge |
Laura Lee Wyld, Baroness Wyld (born 13 January 1978) is a British communications specialist and life peer. She served as head of the Prime Minister's Appointments Unit from 2013 to 2016, and has been a Conservative member of the House of Lords since 2017.[1]
Wyld was educated in Newcastle upon Tyne and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where she read history.[1][2] She was nominated for a life peerage as part of David Cameron's Resignation Honours in 2016, but the creation of her peerage was set to be delayed until the start of the next parliamentary session.[3] She was created Baroness Wyld, of Gosforth in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, on 22 June 2017.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Wyld". Who's Who. Vol. 2019 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ 'Sidney Sussex College Annual Review 2016', pp. 101-2.
- ^ "Resignation Peerages 2016" (PDF). Cabinet Office. 4 August 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
- ^ "No. 61978". The London Gazette. 28 June 2017. p. 12346.
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