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Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Aberavon and Baroness Howe of Idlicote (b. February 8, 1932), wife of Sir Geoffrey Howe, now Lord Howe of Aberavon, was born Elspeth Rosamond Morton Shand, daughter of the writer Philip Morton Shand (or P. Morton Shand, or Morton Shand) by his fourth wife Sybil Mary Shand. As such, she is an aunt of the half-blood to Camilla Parker-Bowles, nee Shand, whose father Bruce Middleton Hope Shand was son of P. Morton Shand by a previous marriage.

Elspeth Shand was well-educated for her times, studying at Wycombe Abbey, a leading private school for girls in the United Kingdom. She went on to marry the rising politician Geoffrey Howe in 1953, and have issue 1 son and 2 daughters.

She then served as deputy chairman of the Equal Opportunites Commission from 1975 to 1979, and in various other capacities from 1980. She was later made Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission. In 2001, at the age of 69, she was made a life peer as Baroness Howe of Idicote in her own right, becoming one of the first People's Peers . [As a result of her husband having received a knighthood and later a peerage, and herself subsequently being made a peer in her own right, she is now three times a lady, going from Mrs Geoffrey Howe to Lady Howe, to Baroness Howe of Aberavon to Baroness Howe of Idicote].


SOURCES

Political profile from Vacher Dod

Camilla's grandfather and other ancestors

Immediate ancestry of P. Morton Shand


The Daily Telegraph article on new peers

The Guardian article on new peers



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