Lindsay Northover, Baroness Northover
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Northover PC |
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| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for International Development | |
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Assumed office 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Rt Hon Lynne Featherstone |
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Lindsay Patricia Granshaw 21 August 1954 |
| Alma mater | St Anne's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Politician Academic |
Lindsay Patricia Northover, Baroness Northover, (born 21 August 1954; née Granshaw) is a British Liberal Democrat politician, member of the House of Lords and former junior government minister.
The daughter of Charles and Patricia Granshaw, Northover was born on 21 August 1954. She was educated at Brighton and Hove High School, an independent school for girls in Brighton. She went on to study at St Anne's College, Oxford, where in 1976 she graduated Bachelor of Arts in modern history (later promoted to Master of Arts). She received an English-Speaking Union Scholarship and a Mrs Giles Whiting Fellowship to study at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania, receiving an examined Master of Arts degree in 1978 and graduating as a Doctor of Philosophy in the history and philosophy of science in 1981.
Northover was awarded a research fellowship at University College London and St. Mark's Hospital from 1980 to 1983, and a further research fellowship in 1983–84 at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London. She was then appointed Lecturer at University College London and Wellcome Institute in 1984, where she taught medical students, human science students and others from across the University of London, and carried out research on the history of modern medicine, authoring various academic books and articles.
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