Emma Nicholson
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Emma Harriet Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (born 16 October 1941) is a British politician. She is a life peer and a member of the House of Lords, and also is a Member of the European Parliament for South East England. She is a member of the Liberal Democrats.
She had previously been a Conservative member of Parliament for Devon West and Torridge, since 1987, and had been its vice-chairman since 1983, but defected to the Lib Dems in 1995. She was made a life peer in 1997, and became an MEP in 1999.
Emma Nicholson is partially deaf, and frequently acts as a spokesperson on behalf of disabled, and particularly deaf, people.
External links
- Emma Nicholson MEP (http://www.emmanicholson.org.uk/) official site
- Profile at the European Parliament (http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/whos_mep.data?ipid=0&ilg=EN&iucd=4522)
- Profile at the site of the Liberal Democrats (http://www.libdems.org.uk/party/people/person.html?id=166)