Sal Brinton
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Brinton |
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| President of the Liberal Democrats | |
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Assumed office 1 January 2015 |
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| Leader |
Nick Clegg Tim Farron |
| Preceded by | Tim Farron |
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Sarah Virginia Brinton 1 April 1955 London, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats |
| Alma mater |
Central School of Speech and Drama Churchill College, Cambridge |
| Religion | Anglicanism |
Sarah Virginia Brinton, Baroness Brinton (born 1 April 1955), known popularly as Sal Brinton, is the President of the British Liberal Democrats. In November 2010 she was nominated to the House of Lords, taking her place on 10 February 2011 as Baroness Brinton, of Kenardington in the County of Kent.
Brinton is the daughter of former Conservative MP Tim Brinton, and the cousin of .
Brinton was educated at Benenden School and studied stage management at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She subsequently completed a degree in English literature from Churchill College, Cambridge in 1981.
In 2003, Brinton was awarded an honorary PhD for her contribution to education, skills and learning by Anglia Ruskin University. In November 2013, she was made a Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London. She is Patron of Christian Blind Mission UK, Trustee of the United Kingdom Committee of UNICEF, a Trustee of the Ufi Charitable Trust, and a Director of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd.
Beginning her career in the mid 1970s at the BBC as a television floor manager, working on programmes including Playschool, Grandstand and Doctor Who, Brinton became a Cambridgeshire County Councillor in 1993 and contested the parliamentary seat of South East Cambridgeshire at the 1997 and 2001 general elections.
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