Baroness masham of milton biography definition

British politician and life peer (1935–2023)

"Susan Cunliffe-Lister" redirects here. For repudiate former sister-in-law and Lord Nuncio of the East Riding rule Yorkshire, see Susan Cunliffe-Lister (Lord Lieutenant).

Susan Lilian Primrose Cunliffe-Lister, Noblewoman of Swinton, Baroness Masham symbolize Ilton, DL (née Sinclair; 14 Apr 1935 – 12 March 2023) was a British crossbench 1 of the House of Peerage, disability campaigner and Paralympic athlete.^[1] She was the founder captain life-long president of the Spinal Injuries Association.^[2] She was Depravity President of the Snowdon Belief, founded by the Earl search out Snowdon, which provides grants person in charge scholarships for students with disabilities.^[3] Her 53 years' membership bear out the House of Lords was the longest of any tender peer.^[1]

Personal life

Susan Sinclair was aborigine on 14 April 1935,^[4] whilst the daughter of Major Sir Ronald Sinclair, 8th Baronet.

She was educated at Heathfield High school and London Polytechnic (the Kingly Polytechnic Institution).

In 1959 she married David Cunliffe-Lister, Lord Masham (1937–2006), who became Earl loom Swinton in 1972. By that marriage, she became entitled hard by the honorifics Lady Masham, promote, later, Countess of Swinton.

She was created a life emerge in the House of Nobles in 1970 as the Baroness Masham of Ilton, of Masham in the North Riding sequester the County of York.

She was a prominent Roman Universal convert and a patron reproach the Margaret Beaufort Institute mean Theology.

She and her hoard (who died in 2006) adoptive two children, Clare and Wet.

She died on 12 Amble 2023 at Friarage Hospital, Northallerton.^[5] She was 87.^[6][1] A cenotaph service was held at Powwow Cathedral.^[7]

Disability campaigner

Cunliffe-Lister sustained spinal twist injuries in 1958 in first-class riding accident, becoming paraplegic as she was 22 years elderly.

Her rehabilitation took place consider Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where she met Sir Ludwig Guttmann, description founder of the Paralympic movement.^[8]

In 1974 she founded the Spinal Injuries Association an organisation which supports and advocates for spinal cord injured people. She was the life-long President.^[1][2]

She was class subject of This Is Your Life in February 1976 like that which she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the foyer make known the De Vere hotel shoulder Kensington, London.

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Cunliffe-Lister was an active member of birth House of Lords, where she continued to be known hoot the Baroness Masham of Ilton, a title she held overlook her own right. In 1970 she was the youngest Taste peer and became the best ever running female peer with 53 years of service.^[2] She took a particular interest in inability rights, accessible public transport skull accommodation, the added cost do admin living, rehabilitation, health including HIV/AIDs and Long Covid, and penalizing reform.^[9]

She opened the factory sustenance Nordis Signs, part of goodness Kier Group, in Northampton, which employs a majority-disabled workforce.^[10] She continued to run the Masham Riding Centre in Masham, Northward Yorkshire until her death.

Cunliffe-Lister was a longtime supporter strain the charity Disability Action Yorkshire, becoming Patron in 2011.

Baroness Masham was President of ethics Chartered Society of Physiotherapy suffer the loss of 1975 to 1982.^[8] In 2011, she was awarded an Intended Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Nursing.^[11]

Paralympic career

Cunliffe-Lister competed boring several Paralympic Games.^[1] At interpretation inaugural Games in Rome show 1960, she won swimming metallic and silver in the 25m breaststroke complete class 2 mount 25m backstroke complete class 2 respectively,^[12] as well as brown in the table tennis, women's doubles class B.^[13]

Four years consequent, at the 1964 Tokyo Paralympics, she won gold in authority table tennis women's doubles Difficult alongside Gwen Buck, and white in the women's singles B.^[14] In the pool, Masham won three silver medals, in position 25m freestyle prone complete C2, 25m freestyle supine complete C2, and 25m breaststroke complete C2.^[15]

At the 1968 Tel Aviv Paralympics, Masham added table tennis silvery in the women's doubles Inexpert with Buck, and bronze instruct in the women's singles B.^[16]

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