Tessa Ann Vosper Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone, PC (born 27 September 1942 in Bures, Suffolk) is a British politician and university administrator. Blackstone was educated at Ware Grammar School for Girls and the London School of Economics, where she ultimately gained a doctorate. She has been Minister for Education at the Department of Education from 1997 to 2001 then Minister for the Arts at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport 2001–2003. Before joining the government, she headed Birkbeck College, University of London, from 1987 to 1997. She is a Labour life peer in the House of Lords and sits as Baroness Blackstone, of Stoke Newington in Greater London. In 2004, she became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich. Baroness Blackstone is a Vice-President of the British Humanist Association.
External links
- Vice-Chancellor – Baroness Blackstone at U-Gre
- Donald MacLeod, The Guardian, July 12, 2005, "Tessa Blackstone: Naval gazing"
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| Preceded by Alan Howarth |
Minister for the Arts 2001–2003 |
Succeeded by Estelle Morris |
