The Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2021 | |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 26 January 2021 Life peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | 4 September 1968 |
Political party | Conservative |
Stephanie Mary Fraser, Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (born 4 September 1968),[1] is a British charity executive and life peer. She is the chief executive of Cerebral Palsy Scotland.[2]
Fraser was born on 4 September 1968 in Glasgow, Scotland. She was educated at Arts Educational School, Tring Park (now Tring Park School), a private school in Tring, Hertfordshire, England, and at Stowe School, a public school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire. She studied history at the Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1990.[3]
Fraser was the Conservative candidate in Strathkelvin and Bearsden in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.[4]
In December 2020, it was announced that she would be receiving a life peerage.[5][6][7][8] She entered the House of Lords as a Conservative peer on 26 January 2021.[9] On 13 May 2021, she made her maiden speech during the Queen's Speech debate.[10]