She worked in the National Health Service as Chief Nursing Officer of South East Thames Regional Health Authority throughout the 1980s, and is chiefly remembered and honoured for leading the programme that replaced Darenth Park Hospital, a huge asylum for people with learning disabilities, which closed in August 1988.[5]
Affiliationsedit
Emerton was Chancellor and Chief Commander of St John Ambulance and a volunteer with the organisation for more than 70 years. She submitted her resignation in January 2002, saying she did not wish to seek a further three years in the post when her period of office expired in June 2002 [6]
She was elected chairman of the charity Attend (formerly known as National Association of Hospital and Community Friends) in 2003. She retired as chairman in 2006 but was named vice-president, a position she still holds.[7]
She served as chairman of the Brighton Health Care NHS Trust from 1994 to 2000: the Audrey Emerton Building, an educational facility of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, is named in her honour.[8]
Sable a Cross conjoined to a Bordure Argent between four Ancient Lamps the spouts inwards and enflamed Or
Supporters
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Motto
PRO FIDE PRO ULTILITATE HOMINUM(For the Faith, for the service of mankind)
Orders
Order of the British Empire circlet (Appointed DBE 1989)
audrey, emerton, baroness, emerton, audrey, caroline, emerton, baroness, emerton, gcstj, frcn, born, september, 1935, former, member, house, lords, crossbencher, right, honourablethe, baroness, emertondbe, frcnofficial, portrait, baroness, emertonmember, house. Audrey Caroline Emerton Baroness Emerton DBE GCStJ FRCN born 10 September 1935 is a former member of the House of Lords She sat as a crossbencher The Right HonourableThe Baroness EmertonDBE FRCNOfficial Portrait of Baroness EmertonMember of the House of LordsLord TemporalIn office 17 February 1997 1 November 2019Life PeeragePersonal detailsBornAudrey Caroline Emerton 1935 09 10 10 September 1935 age 88 NationalityBritishPolitical partyCrossbench Appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1989 New Year Honours 1 she was created a life peer as Baroness Emerton of Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent and of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington on 17 February 1997 2 3 She sat in the House of Lords until her retirement on 1 November 2019 4 Contents 1 Career 2 Affiliations 3 Arms 4 Honours 5 ReferencesCareer editShe worked in the National Health Service as Chief Nursing Officer of South East Thames Regional Health Authority throughout the 1980s and is chiefly remembered and honoured for leading the programme that replaced Darenth Park Hospital a huge asylum for people with learning disabilities which closed in August 1988 5 Affiliations editEmerton was Chancellor and Chief Commander of St John Ambulance and a volunteer with the organisation for more than 70 years She submitted her resignation in January 2002 saying she did not wish to seek a further three years in the post when her period of office expired in June 2002 6 She was elected chairman of the charity Attend formerly known as National Association of Hospital and Community Friends in 2003 She retired as chairman in 2006 but was named vice president a position she still holds 7 She served as chairman of the Brighton Health Care NHS Trust from 1994 to 2000 the Audrey Emerton Building an educational facility of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust is named in her honour 8 Arms editCoat of arms of Audrey Emerton Baroness Emerton nbsp nbsp Coronet A Coronet of a Baroness Escutcheon Sable a Cross conjoined to a Bordure Argent between four Ancient Lamps the spouts inwards and enflamed Or Supporters On either side a Dragon Sable gorged with a Collar attached thereto a Chain reflexed over the back and grasping in the interior forefoot a Stave terminating in an eight pointed Maltese Cross Argent Motto PRO FIDE PRO ULTILITATE HOMINUM For the Faith for the service of mankind Orders Order of the British Empire circlet Appointed DBE 1989 Honours edit nbsp nbsp nbsp Ribbon Description Notes nbsp Order of the British Empire DBE Dame Commander Civil Division 1989 New Years Honours List nbsp Order of St John GCStJ Dame Grand Cross 2004 nbsp ULS Extension of the Service Medal of the Order of St John with 4 Gold Bars 70 years of volunteer service with St John Ambulance She is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing giving her the Post Nominal Letters FRCN for Life References edit No 51578 The London Gazette Supplement 31 December 1988 p 7 No 54685 The London Gazette 20 February 1997 p 2133 Lundy Darryl The Peerage ThePeerage com Retrieved 7 April 2016 Baroness Emerton UK Parliament Retrieved 2 November 2019 Baroness Audrey Emerton UKCC Chair of and Chief Commander of St John Ambulance Nursing Times March 2010 Benjamin Alison 1 May 2002 Running into trouble The Guardian Attend VIPs Attend Retrieved 22 April 2019 About Us The Audrey Emerton Building Retrieved 22 April 2019 nbsp This biography of a life peer is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Audrey Emerton Baroness Emerton amp oldid 1190878183, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
