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Ann Mallalieu, Baroness Mallalieu

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The Right Honourable
The Baroness Mallalieu
KC
Official portrait, 2019
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
19 June 1991
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born27 November 1945 (1945-11-27) (age 78)
Political partyLabour
SpouseSir Timothy Cassel, Bt, KC (1979–2006)

Ann Mallalieu, Baroness Mallalieu, KC (born 27 November 1945), is a British lawyer, Labour politician and President of the Countryside Alliance.[1]

Family and early life[edit]

Lady Mallalieu comes from a distinguished political family.[2] Her grandfather, Frederick Mallalieu, was Liberal Member of Parliament for Colne Valley. He was succeeded in that seat by her uncle, Sir Lance Mallalieu, later Labour MP for Brigg. Her father, Sir William Mallalieu, served as Labour MP for Huddersfield East.
Educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, she became the first female president of the Cambridge Union Society.[3]

Legal career[edit]

Mallalieu practiced as a barrister at the chambers 6 Kings Bench Walk.[4]

Political career[edit]

Mallalieu contested Hitchin for Labour at both the February and October 1974 elections, but was defeated by the Conservative Ian Stewart on both occasions.

House of Lords[edit]

On 19 June 1991, Mallalieu was created a life peer as Baroness Mallalieu, of Studdridge in the County of Buckinghamshire.[5]

In 2004, she led the House of Lords opposition to the House of Commons' proposal to ban hunting with hounds.

In a House of Lords debate on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill on 31 January 2018 Baroness Mallalieu revealed she voted for Britain to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum.[6]

Personal life[edit]

Ann Mallalieu married Sir Timothy Cassel, Bt, KC, in 1979, having two daughters, the Hon. Bathsheba Cassel (born 1981) and the Hon. Cosima Cassel (born 1984). Sir Timothy Cassel and Baroness Mallalieu divorced in 2006.[7]

Baroness Mallalieu is a member of the Exmoor Hunt and the Devon and Somerset Staghounds.

Arms[edit]

Coat of arms of Ann Mallalieu, Baroness Mallalieu
Escutcheon
Azure on a chevron Ermine between three fleurs-de-lis Argent four bezants on a chief Ermines a rose of the third barbed and seeded Proper.
Supporters
Dexter a horse Argent sinister a foxhound Proper both gorged with a torse Argent and Azure and each statant erect on a field of stubble with a hedgerow that on the dexter having a stile and palings and that on the sinister a gate with palings all in perspective Proper.
Motto
Mal À Lui Qui Mal En Dit (Evil Unto He Who Speaketh Evil)[8] [9]
Symbolism
Fleurs-de-lis refer to Huguenot ancestry, motto cants on her surname, horse alludes to the Inner Temple, as well as Her Ladyship's equine charities, foxhound to her hunting pursuits.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Birthdays: Ann Mallalieu". The Times. London. 27 November 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
  2. ^ www.mallalieus.com
  3. ^ Pinder, Rodney (14 November 1967). "Another Masculine Tradition Collapses At Cambridge". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. p. 9.
  4. ^ www.6kbw.com
  5. ^ "No. 52580". The London Gazette. 24 June 1991. p. 9653.
  6. ^ "European Union (Withdrawal) Bill - Wednesday 31 January 2018 - Hansard - UK Parliament". hansard.parliament.uk. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  7. ^ www.burkespeerage.com
  8. ^ Duncan Sutherland. "Arms and the Woman: The Heraldry of Women Parliamentarians" (PDF). The Heraldry Society. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  9. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 3522.

External links[edit]

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