The Reverend and Right Honourable
The Baroness Sherlock
OBE
Official portrait, 2022
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
17 June 2010
2023–presentFaith
2013–presentWork and Pensions
2021–2022Education
2015–2020Senior Whip
2013–2015Whip
Personal details
Born
Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock

(1960-11-10) 10 November 1960
Finsbury Park, London, England
Political partyLabour
ResidenceDurham, England
Alma materUniversity of Liverpool
Open University
St Chad's College, Durham

Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock, Baroness Sherlock, OBE (born 10 November 1960) is a British politician serving as a Member of the House of Lords since 2010. A member of the Labour Party, she is an ordained priest of the Church of England.

Early life and education

Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock was born on 10 November 1960 in Finsbury Park, London. She was educated at Our Lady's Abingdon in Abingdon on Thames.

Sherlock read Sociology at the University of Liverpool, and later received a Master of Business Administration from the Open University.[1] She served as President of the National Union of Students from 1988 to 1990.[2]

Career

Sherlock was director of the UK Council for Overseas Student Affairs from 1991 until 1997, when she became chief executive of the National Council for One Parent Families. She was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2000 New Year Honours.[3]

Sherlock worked as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2000 to 2003, advising the Chancellor of the Exchequer on social issues. She later became a trustee of think tank Demos.

Sherlock was chief executive of the Refugee Council from 2003 to 2006. A member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission from 2007 to 2010,[4] she chaired the National Student Forum during the same period.

Sherlock has been non-executive director of the Financial Ombudsman Service board since 2008. She was also non-executive director of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission from 2008 to 2010.

House of Lords

On 17 June 2010, she was created a life peer as Baroness Sherlock, of Durham in the County of Durham.[5] Sherlock was introduced in the House of Lords on 5 July 2010, where she sits as a member of the Labour Party.[6]

Sherlock was appointed an opposition whip in March 2013, and a Work and Pensions spokesperson in October 2013. She was promoted to serve as a senior whip from May 2015 until April 2020, when she stepped down from the position. She was an Education spokesperson from May 2021 to May 2022.

Church of England

Sherlock is an Honorary Fellow and Tutor at St Chad's College, Durham, where she studied for a doctorate in Theology.[7][8]

She trained for ordained ministry at St Mellitus College from 2016 until 2018, when she was ordained as a Church of England deacon.[9] Sherlock served her curacy at St Nicholas Church, Durham,[10] where she was later licensed as non-stipendiary associate vicar.[11][12]

She was ordained a priest at Durham Cathedral in 2019,[13] and has been a non-stipendiary priest vicar at Westminster Abbey since 2022.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Staying power". The Guardian. 16 February 2005. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "MPs and Lords: Baroness Sherlock: Experience". UK Parliament. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "No. 55710". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1999. p. 16.
  4. ↑ GNN – Government News Network Archived 9 June 2007 at archive.today
  5. ↑ "No. 59466". The London Gazette. 22 June 2010. p. 11706.
  6. ↑ House of Lords Business, 22 June 2010
  7. ↑ "Maeve Sherlock Honoured", Anglican Diocese of Durham website, July–August 2010 (text needs magnification)
  8. ↑ "Maeve Sherlock". Tutors' Profiles. St Chad's College, Durham. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  9. 1 2 "Baroness Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock". Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  10. ↑ "Ordinations 2018 – Ordinands and Pictures". Diocese of Durham. 30 June 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  11. ↑ "Appointments". Church Times. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022. SHERLOCK. The Revd Maeve Sherlock, NS Assistant Curate of St Nicholas's, Durham (Durham), to be NS Associate Minister, remaining Priest-Vicar of Westminster Abbey.
  12. ↑ "Staff". St Nics Durham. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  13. ↑ "Inspiring Stories of Ministry Lie behind Ordination Ceremony in 2019". Diocese of Durhham. 21 June 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2019.


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