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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“The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)