Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark

The Baroness Perry of Southwark
Member of the House of Lords
Life peerage
16 July 1991 – 26 May 2016
Personal details
BornPauline Welch
(1931-10-15) 15 October 1931
PartyConservative Party
Spouse
George Walter Perry
(m. 1952)
OccupationPolitician, University President
President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
In office
1994–2001
Preceded byDame Anne Warburton
Succeeded byDame Veronica Sutherland
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Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark (née Welch; born 15 October 1931) is an educator, educationist, academic, and activist. She is a Conservative politician and was for 25 years a working member of the British House of Lords. In 1981 she became Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England. In 1986 she became Vice-Chancellor of South Bank Polytechnic, and serving during its transition to a university, became the first woman in history to run a British university.