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Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne
British politician, life peer (born 1941)
Emma Harriet Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (born 16 October 1941) is a British politician, who has been a life peer since 1997.
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She was elected as the ConservativeMember of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon in 1987, before switching to the Liberal Democrats in 1995. She was also the Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for South East England from 1999 to 2009.
In 2016, she announced she was re-joining the Conservative Party "with tremendous pleasure".[2] In 2017, Baroness Nicholson was appointed as Prime Minister's Trade Envoy for Kazakhstan.[3]
Early life
Born in Oxford and a descendant of the family that founded London gin distillers J&W Nicholson & Co, Lady Nicholson is the third of four daughters of Sir Godfrey Nicholson, Bt and his wife, Lady Katharine (the fifth daughter of the 27th Earl of Crawford).
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