Virginia Bottomley

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Person.png Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone   Companies House Powerbase SourcewatchRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician, lobbyist)
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Baroness Bottomley head-hunted nephew Tristram Hunt and bequeathed her Surrey seat to cousin Jeremy Hunt
BornVirginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Garnett
12 March 1948
Dunoon, Scotland
Alma materUniversity of Essex, London School of Economics
ReligionAnglican
SpousePeter Bottomley
Member ofDitchley/Governors, Ditchley/UK
PartyConservative

Employment.png Member of the House of Lords Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
2005 - Present

Employment.png UK/Member of Parliament Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
4 May 1984 - 11 April 2005
EmployerSouth West Surrey

Employment.png Secretary of State for Health Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
9 April 1992 - 5 July 1995

Employment.png Minister of State for Health

In office
28 October 1989 - 9 April 1992

Virginia Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, is a British Conservative Party politician. She was a UK/Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Surrey from 1984 to 2005, when her cousin Jeremy Hunt inherited the constituency. Virginia was then ennobled and became Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone.[1]

Lobbyist

Baroness Bottomley now lobbies on behalf of the private health sector, was a director of BUPA between 2007-2013 and of Smith & Nephew between 2012-2021.[2] Previously she was a member of the Supervisory Board of Akzo Nobel NV from 2000–12, and is a Trustee of the Economist.

Other activities

As part of her pro-bono activities, Baroness Bottomley is Chancellor of the University of Hull. She was a Governor of the London School of Economics for 31 years. She is a member of the UK Advisory Council of the International Chambers of Commerce. She is Chair of Board Practice at executive head-hunting firm Odgers Berndtson where she has been since 2000.[3]

Nepotism

Baroness Bottomley is the aunt of former Labour MP Tristram Hunt, whom she head-hunted to become Director of London's Victoria and Albert Museum in December 2016.[4]

Affiliations


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References

  1. "The Hunt Bottomley link"
  2. "Director Smith & Nephew 2012-2021"
  3. "Virginia Bottomley – Chair, Board Practice"
  4. "Big-name hunter Virginia Bottomley fights to bag more jobs for women"
  5. Ditchley Foundation Governors, organizational web page, accessed April 12, 2013.
  6. Volunteering England Patrons, organizational web page, accessed July 16, 2012.