Susan Garden, Baroness Garden of Frognal

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Garden of Frognal
PC
The Right Honourable The Baroness Garden of Frognal PC
	Official portrait, 2020
Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 5 March 2018
Baroness-in-Waiting; Government Whip
	In office; 4 November 2014 – 7 May 2015
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	The Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Succeeded by	Vacant
	In office; 13 October 2010 – 7 October 2013
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	The Baroness Thornton
Succeeded by	The Baroness Jolly
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 18 October 2007; Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	22 February 1944
Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal Democrats
Spouse	Timothy Garden (m. 1965; died 2007)
Children	Antonia Rolph and Alexandra Whitfield
Alma mater	St Hilda's College, Oxford

Susan Elizabeth Garden, Baroness Garden of Frognal, PC (born Button, 22 February 1944) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who, since 2018, serves as Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.

Career

Educated at Westonbirt School and St Hilda's College, Oxford she became a teacher, becoming Hon FCIL in 2012.

Lady Garden stood as the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Finchley and Golders Green (London) in 2005.[1] In September 2007 she was created a Life Peer as Baroness Garden of Frognal, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden.[2][3]

Lady Garden married in 1965 Timothy Garden. Lord Garden died on 9 August 2007, by whom she has two daughters.[4]

Mrs Timothy Garden (1965–1994)
Lady Garden (1994–2004)
The Rt Hon. The Lady Garden (2004–2007)
The Rt Hon. The Baroness Garden of Frognal (2007–2015)
The Rt Hon. The Baroness Garden of Frognal, PC (2015–)

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