Life Peerage
On 13 May 2005, it was announced that she would be created a life peer, and on 21 June 2005, the peerage was created as Baroness Shephard of Northwold, in the County of Norfolk. She is currently Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers.
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Famous quotes containing the word life:
“Half life is over now,
And I meet full face on dark mornings
The bestial visor, bent in
By the blows of what happened to happen.
What does it prove? Sod all.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)