Ann Mallalieu, Baroness Mallalieu

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Mallalieu
QC
The Right Honourable The Baroness Mallalieu QC
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 19 June 1991; Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	27 November 1945 (age 78)
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Sir Timothy Cassel, Bt, QC

Ann Mallalieu, Baroness Mallalieu QC (born 27 November 1945) is a British lawyer, Labour Party politician and president of the Countryside Alliance.^[1]

Family and early life

Lady Mallalieu comes from a distinguished political family. Her grandfather, Frederick Mallalieu, had been Liberal Member of Parliament for Colne Valley. He was succeeded in that seat by her uncle, Lance Mallalieu, later Labour MP for Brigg. Her father, Joseph Percival William Mallalieu (known as William), was Labour MP for Huddersfield East. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was the first female president of the Cambridge Union Society.^[2]

Legal career

Mallalieu was a barrister in the chambers 6 Kings Bench Walk.

Political career

Mallalieu fought Hitchin at both the February and October 1974 elections, but was defeated by the Conservative Ian Stewart on both occasions.

House of Lords

On 19 June 1991, Mallalieu was made a life peer as Baroness Mallalieu, of Studdridge in the County of Buckinghamshire.^[3]

In 2004, she led the House of Lords opposition to the House of Commons' proposal to ban hunting with hounds.

In a House of Lords debate on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill on 31 January 2018 Baroness Mallalieu revealed she had voted for Britain to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum.^[4]

Personal life

Ann Mallalieu was married to Sir Timothy Cassel, Bt, QC. They have two daughters: Bathsheba (b.1981) and Cosima (b.1984). The couple divorced in 2006.

Lady Mallalieu is a member of the Exmoor Hunt and the Devon and Somerset Staghounds.

Arms

Coat of arms of Ann Mallalieu, Baroness Mallalieu
	Coronet Coronet of a baron Escutcheon Azure on a Chevron Ermine between four Fleurs-de-lys Argent four Bezants on a Chief Ermines a Rose of the third barbed and seeded proper Supporters Dexter: a Horse Argent ; Sinister: a Fox-Hound proper, both gorged with a Torse argent and azure and each statant erect on a Field of Stubble with a Hedgerow that on the dexter having a Stile and Palings and that on the sinister a Gate with Palings all in perspective proper Motto Mal a lui qui mal a dit (Evil to him who evil speaks) ^[5]

References

^ "Birthdays: Ann Mallalieu". The Times. London. 27 November 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
^ Pinder, Rodney (14 November 1967). "Another Masculine Tradition Collapses At Cambridge". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. p. 9.
^ "No. 52580". The London Gazette. 24 June 1991. p. 9653.
^ https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2018-01-31/debates/6E9F9C26-27A7-4157-B6FF-115044A62448/EuropeanUnion(Withdrawal)Bill#contribution-238D051C-52FE-48D8-87C2-FB4E81FF5A13
^ http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/lp1958%20m.htm

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[birthdays-1] "Birthdays: Ann Mallalieu". The Times. London. 27 November 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2010.

[masculine-2] Pinder, Rodney (14 November 1967). "Another Masculine Tradition Collapses At Cambridge". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. p. 9.

[3] "No. 52580". The London Gazette. 24 June 1991. p. 9653.

[4] ttps://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2018-01-31/debates/6E9F9C26-27A7-4157-B6FF-115044A62448/EuropeanUnion(Withdrawal)Bill#contribution-238D051C-52FE-48D8-87C2-FB4E81FF5A13

[5] ttp://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/lp1958%20m.htm

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