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{{Short description|British politician (born 1944)}}
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| honorific-prefix    = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name                = The Baroness Garden of Frognal
| honorific-suffix    = [[Privy Council (United Kingdom)|PC]]
| image               = Official portrait of Baroness Garden of Frognal 2020 crop 2.jpg
| office              = [[Senior Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords|Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords]]
| term_start          = 5 March 2018
| term_end            =
| office1             = [[Baroness-in-Waiting]]<br>[[Government Whip]]
| primeminister1      = [[David Cameron]]
| term_start1         = 4 November 2014
| term_end1           = 7 May 2015
| predecessor1        = [[Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon|The Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon]]
| successor1          = Vacant
| primeminister2      = [[David Cameron]]
| term_start2         = 13 October 2010
| term_end2           = 7 October 2013
| predecessor2        = [[Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton|The Baroness Thornton]]
| successor2          = [[Judith Jolly, Baroness Jolly|The Baroness Jolly]]
| office3             = [[Member of the House of Lords]]<br/>[[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]]
| term_start3         = 18 October 2007<br/>[[Life peer|Life Peerage]]
| term_end3           =
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1944|2|22|df=y}}
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| nationality         = [[United Kingdom|British]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|[[Timothy Garden, Baron Garden|Timothy Garden]]|1965|9 August 2007|end=d.}}
| party               = [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]]
| relations           =
| children            = Antonia Rolph and Alexandra Whitfield
| residence           =
| alma_mater          = [[St Hilda's College, Oxford]]
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| caption             = Official portrait, 2020
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'''Susan Elizabeth Garden, Baroness Garden of Frognal''', [[Privy Council (United Kingdom)|PC]] (born Button, 22 February 1944) is a [[People of the United Kingdom|British]] [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat politician]] who, since 2018, serves as Deputy Speaker of the [[House of Lords]].
== Career ==
Educated at [[Westonbirt School]] and [[St Hilda's College, Oxford]] she became a teacher, becoming [[Chartered Institute of Linguists|Hon FCIL]] in 2012.
Lady Garden stood as the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]] parliamentary candidate for [[Finchley and Golders Green]] (London) in 2005.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/255.stm Result: Finchley and Golders Green] [[BBC|BBC News]] 2005-05-23</ref>   In September 2007 she was created a [[Life Peer]] as '''Baroness Garden of Frognal''', of [[Hampstead]] in the [[London Borough of Camden]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=58498 |date=30 October 2007 |page=15677}}</ref><ref name="parl"/>
Lady Garden is a former [[Whip (politics)|Government Whip]] and Spokesperson for the [[Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport]], for [[Department for Business, Innovation and Skills]] and (Higher Education) [[Department for Education]].<ref name="parl">{{cite web | title=Baroness Garden of Frognal on the Parliamentary website | url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/baroness-garden-of-frognal/3842 | accessdate=12 January 2011}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Lady Garden married in 1965 [[Timothy Garden]]. Lord Garden died on 9 August 2007, by whom she has two daughters.<ref>[https://www.burkespeerage.com/ www.burkespeerage.com]</ref>
==Styles==
* Mrs Timothy Garden (1965–1994)
* Lady Garden (1994–2004)
* The Rt Hon. The Lady Garden (2004–2007)
* The Rt Hon. The Baroness Garden of Frognal (2007–2015)
* The Rt Hon. The Baroness Garden of Frognal, PC (2015–)
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/baroness-garden-of-frognal/3842 Baroness Garden of Frognal] on Parliament.uk
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110604213727/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article2987338.ece ''The Times Online'' coverage of Baron Garden's funeral]
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