Anne Jenkin, Baroness Jenkin of Kennington

Who is Anne Jenkin, Baroness Jenkin of Kennington?

Anne Caroline Jenkin, Baroness Jenkin of Kennington is a PR consultant and Conservative member of the House of Lords.

Jenkin was born Anne Caroline Strutt on 8 December 1955 to the Hon. Charles Strutt and the Hon. Jean Davidson. Her father is the son of the physicist the 4th Baron Rayleigh by his first wife, Lady Hilda Clements. Her mother is the daughter of the Conservative politician the 1st Viscount Davidson and the life peeress Baroness Northchurch. She is married to the Conservative Member of Parliament Bernard Jenkin, whose father is the Conservative peer Lord Jenkin of Roding.

She was created a life peer on 26 January 2011 as Baroness Jenkin of Kennington, of Hatfield Peverel in the County of Essex, and was introduced in the House of Lords on 27 January 2011, where she sits on the Conservative benches. She has spoken in favour of equal marriage.