Maeve Sherlock
The Baroness Sherlock | |
|---|---|
 Maeve Sherlock in 2010 | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 17 June 2010 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock 10 November 1960 Finsbury Park, London, England |
| Political party | Labour |
Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock, Baroness Sherlock, OBE (born 10 November 1960) is a Labour Party life peer.
Biography
Born in Finsbury Park, north London, Sherlock was educated at Our Lady's Abingdon in Abingdon on Thames before going on to study Sociology at Liverpool University. She later received an MBA from the Open University.[1] She served as NUS President from 1988 to 1990.[2]
From 2007 to 2010 she was a commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).[3] Sherlock chaired the National Student Forum from 2007 to 2010 and was a Non-Executive Director of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission from 2008 to 2010. She has been on the board of the Financial Ombudsman Service since 2007.
She was chief executive of the Refugee Council, a charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the UK, between August 2003 and October 2006. Prior to joining the charity, she worked as a special advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown MP. At the Treasury her brief covered social issues such as child poverty and welfare reform.
Sherlock has also been Chief Executive of the National Council for One Parent Families, Director of the education charity UKCOSA and is a former president of the National Union of Students. She was a trustee of the think tank Demos. She studied at the University of Liverpool in the 1980s. She is currently[when?] working on her doctorate in Theology at St Chad's College, Durham University, of which she is also an Honorary Fellow and Tutor.[4][5]
Church of England
Sherlock trained for ordained ministry at St Mellitus College from 2016 to 2018.[6] On 30 June 2018, she was ordained as a deacon in the Church of England, to serve her curacy at St Nicholas' Church, Durham (St Nics).[7] On 29 June 2019, she was ordained a priest at Durham Cathedral.[8] In May 2022, she was licenced as non-stipendiary associate vicar of St Nics.[9][10] Since 2022, she has also been a priest vicar of Westminster Abbey.[6]
Honours
She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2000 New Year Honours.[11]
On 17 June 2010, she was created a life peer as Baroness Sherlock, of Durham in the County of Durham,[12] and was introduced in the House of Lords on 5 July 2010.[13]
References
- ^ "Staying power". The Guardian. 16 February 2005. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
- ^ "MPs and Lords: Baroness Sherlock: Experience". UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ GNN – Government News Network Archived 9 June 2007 at archive.today
- ^ "Maeve Sherlock Honoured", Anglican Diocese of Durham website, July–August 2010 (text needs magnification)
- ^ "Maeve Sherlock". Tutors' Profiles. St Chad's College, Durham. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
- ^ a b "Baroness Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
- ^ "Ordinations 2018 – Ordinands and Pictures". Diocese of Durham. 30 June 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- ^ "Inspiring Stories of Ministry Lie behind Ordination Ceremony in 2019". Diocese of Durhham. 21 June 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
- ^ "Appointments". Church Times. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
SHERLOCK. The Revd Maeve Sherlock, NS Assistant Curate of St Nicholas's, Durham (Durham), to be NS Associate Minister, remaining Priest-Vicar of Westminster Abbey.
- ^ "Staff". St Nics Durham. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
- ^ "No. 55710". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1999. p. 16.
- ^ "No. 59466". The London Gazette. 22 June 2010. p. 11706.
- ^ House of Lords Business, 22 June 2010
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