{{Short description|British lawyer and Labour Party politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] | name = The Baroness Mallalieu | honorific_suffix = [[King's Counsel|KC]] | image = Official portrait of Baroness Mallalieu crop 2.jpg | office1 = [[Member of the House of Lords]] | status1 = [[Lord Temporal]] | term_label1 = [[Life peer]]age | term_start1 = 19 June 1991 | term_end1 = <!-- Personal --> | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age text|27 November 1945}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | citizenship = | party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] | height = | spouse = [[Cassel baronets|Sir Timothy Cassel, Bt]] (1979-2006) | partner = | relations = | children = | parents = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | known_for = }}
'''Ann Mallalieu, Baroness Mallalieu''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KC}} (born 27 November 1945) is a British [[lawyer]], [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] [[politician]] and president of the [[Countryside Alliance]].<ref name=birthdays>{{cite news| url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article5239076.ece | title = Birthdays: Ann Mallalieu | access-date = 2010-07-25 | date = 2008-11-27 | newspaper = [[The Times]] | location=London}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
==Family and early life== Lady Mallalieu comes from a distinguished political family. Her grandfather, [[Frederick Mallalieu]], had been [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Colne Valley (UK Parliament constituency)|Colne Valley]]. He was succeeded in that seat by her uncle, [[Lance Mallalieu]], later Labour MP for [[Brigg (UK Parliament constituency)|Brigg]]. Her father, [[Joseph Percival William Mallalieu]] (known as William), was Labour MP for [[Huddersfield East (UK Parliament constituency)|Huddersfield East]]. She was educated at [[Newnham College, Cambridge]], where she was the first female president of the [[Cambridge Union Society]].<ref name=masculine>{{cite news | first = Rodney | last = Pinder | title = Another Masculine Tradition Collapses At Cambridge | publisher = [[Daytona Beach Morning Journal]] | page = 9 | date = 1967-11-14 }}</ref>
==Legal career== Mallalieu was a barrister in the chambers 6 Kings Bench Walk.
==Political career== Mallalieu fought [[Hitchin (UK Parliament constituency)|Hitchin]] for Labour at both the [[February 1974 United Kingdom general election|February]] and [[October 1974 United Kingdom general election|October 1974 elections]], but was defeated by the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Ian Stewart, Baron Stewartby|Ian Stewart]] on both occasions.
===House of Lords=== On 19 June 1991, Mallalieu was made a [[life peer]] as '''Baroness Mallalieu''', of Studdridge in the County of [[Buckinghamshire]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=52580 |date=24 June 1991 |page=9653}}</ref>
In 2004, she led the [[House of Lords]] opposition to the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]' proposal to ban [[hunting]] with hounds.
In a House of Lords debate on the [[European Union (Withdrawal) Bill]] on 31 January 2018 Baroness Mallalieu revealed she had voted for Britain to leave the European Union in the [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|2016 referendum]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=European Union (Withdrawal) Bill - Wednesday 31 January 2018 - Hansard - UK Parliament|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2018-01-31/debates/6E9F9C26-27A7-4157-B6FF-115044A62448/EuropeanUnion(Withdrawal)Bill|access-date=2021-07-21|website=hansard.parliament.uk|language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== Ann Mallalieu was married to [[Cassel baronets|Sir Timothy Cassel, Bt]]. They have two daughters, born 1981 and 1984. The couple divorced in 2006.
Lady Mallalieu is a member of the Exmoor Hunt and the [[Devon and Somerset Staghounds]].
==Arms== {{Infobox COA wide |image = [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|centre|150px]][[File:Mallalieu Escutcheon.png|centre|200px]] |escutcheon = Azure on a chevron Ermine between three fleurs-de-lis Argent four bezants on a chief Ermines a rose of the third barbed and seeded Proper. |supporters = Dexter a horse Argent sinister a fox-hound Proper both gorged with a torse Argent and Azure and each statant erect on a field of stubble with a hedgerow that on the dexter having a stile and palings and that on the sinister a gate with palings all in perspective Proper. |symbolism = Fleurs-de-lis refer to [[Huguenot]] ancestry, motto [[Canting arms|cants]] on family name, horse refers to Inner Temple, as well as the baroness's equine charities, fox-hound to her hunting career. |motto = Mal À Lui Qui Mal En Dit (Evil To Him Who Speaks Evil)<ref>{{cite web|title=Arms and the Woman: The Heraldry of Women Parliamentarians |author=Duncan Sutherland |url=https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Sutherland-paper.pdf |publisher=The Heraldry Society |accessdate=26 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=2019 |page=3522}}</ref>}}
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==External links== *{{NPG name}} *{{UK Peer links | parliament = ann-mallalieu/27015 | hansard = ms-ann-mallalieu | hansardcurr = 1658 | guardian = | publicwhip = Baroness_Mallalieu | theywork = baroness_mallalieu | record = Ann-Mallalieu/1855 | bbc = 27015.stm | journalisted = }} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100711073633/http://yourdemocracy.newstatesman.com/profile/baroness-mallalieu Profile] on ''[[New Statesman]]''
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