About Emma Dent Coad
Emma Dent Coad (born Margaret Mary Dent, 2 November 1954) is a British architectural historian and politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kensington from 2017 to 2019. A former member of the Labour Party, she was first elected a member of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council for Golborne ward in 2006. She resigned her Labour membership on 27 April 2023, but remained on the local council as an independent until 2026. She stood as an independent candidate for Kensington and Bayswater at the 2024 general election, coming in sixth place, of ten candidates. == Early life, education and early career == Dent Coad was born in Stepney, the youngest of six children. Her father, Charles Enrique Dent CBE, was a professor of medicine of half Spanish descent, and her mother, Margaret Ruth Coad, was an Anglican vicar's daughter who converted to Catholicism to marry him. She grew up in Chelsea and went to Sacred Heart High School, a selective grammar school in Hammersmith, London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in History of Design in 1992. Dent Coad has written or contributed to a number of books on architecture and design, including on Javier Mariscal, and is studying at the University of Liverpool School of Architecture for a PhD on "Constructing Modern Spain: Architecture, Politics and Ideology under Franco, 1939–1975", which she put on hold on being elected MP. She has been an organiser of the modern architecture campaign group Docomomo UK since about 2000. == Political career == === Local government === Dent Coad was first elected to represent Golborne (ward) on Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council in 2006, and served as the leader of the opposition and leader of the council's Labour Group from 2014 to 2015.
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