Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy, Date of Birth

    

Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy

British peer

Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1947

Profession: writer, politician, psychiatrist, university teacher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy

  • Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy (born 16 January 1947) is a British politically independent politician and a member of the House of Lords. After qualifying as a doctor and then as a psychiatrist she later became an academic in the National Health Service for 25 years.
  • She spent a period as a Health Service general manager between 1984 and 1990 which included the post of District General Manager for Lewisham and North Southwark Health Authority.
  • She was the first Professor of Psychiatry of Old Age in the UK, held at the University of London at Guy's Hospital.
  • She took on non-executive roles after retirement and was Chair of North East London Strategic Health Authority until 30 June 2006.
  • She was a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary University of London, Vice-President of the Alzheimer’s Society and Chair of Council at St George's, University of London between 2009 and 2012, and was a non-executive member of Monitor (Independent Monitor of NHS Hospitals). On 17 June 2004, she was made a life peer as Baroness Murphy, of Aldgate in the City of London, taking an interest in mental health and ageing issues in the House of Lords where she sits as a Crossbencher. She was first married 1969-2000 to John Murphy, the branding 'guru' and brewer and then second, from 2001, to Professor Michael A Robb FRS, a theoretical chemist.
  • She lives in Norfolk and has homes in London and Lucca, where she grows olives.In January 2009, it was revealed that she was the author of a hoax letter about "Cello scrotum" that was printed in the British Medical Journal in 1974.Baroness Murphy also has a PhD in Social History and has published in the field of 18th and 19th century workhouses, madhouses and local history.
  • Her recent publications include "The Moated Grange: A History of South Norfolk Through the Story of one Home, 1300-2000", about the village of Brockdish in South Norfolk.
  • She is also an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.

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