Anne McIntosh
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The Right Honourable The Baroness McIntosh of Pickering |
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Anne McIntosh MP 2011
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Member of Parliament for Thirsk and Malton Vale of York (1997-2010) |
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In office 1 May 1997 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency Created |
| Succeeded by | Kevin Hollinrake |
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20 September 1954 Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | John Harvey |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Website | www.annemcintosh.org.uk |
Anne Caroline Ballingall McIntosh, Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (born 20 September 1954) is a British Conservative Party politician and life peer.
McIntosh represented the Thirsk and Malton constituency as Member of Parliament (MP), having been MP for Vale of York from 1997 to 2010, and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1989 to 1999. McIntosh was not reselected by her Thirsk and Malton constituency association on 31 January 2014, although continued to represent the Conservative Party in Parliament until the 2015 general election.
She was given a life peerage in 2015 Dissolution Honours and created Baroness McIntosh of Pickering, of the Vale of York in the County of North Yorkshire, on 6 October. Since October 2015, she has sat in the House of Lords.
Born in Edinburgh, the daughter of a Scottish doctor father and Danish mother, Anne McIntosh was educated at Harrogate Ladies College in North Yorkshire and at the University of Edinburgh where she read Law, graduating in 1977 as LLB. She also pursued post-graduate studies at the University of Aarhus in the Jutland region of Denmark.
In 1978, she became a trainee at the European Community (EEC) Competition Directorate, before joining Didier and Associates in Brussels in 1979 as a legal advisor. She trained for the Scottish Bar in Edinburgh from 1980, being admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in June 1982. She worked as an advocate with the Community Law Office in Brussels, before becoming a political advisor to the European Democrats group in the European Parliament in 1983 until 1989.
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