About Joan Hanham, Baroness Hanham
Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham, (née Spark; 23 September 1939 – 24 January 2025) was a British politician who was a member of the House of Lords. She sat as a Conservative. Hanham was parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2010 to 2013, and was leader of the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council from 1989. She was succeeded by councillor Merrick Cockell, who became leader in April 2000. She was made a life peer as Baroness Hanham, of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, on 15 July 1999. That same year, Hanham was a candidate for the re-run Conservative nomination to be Mayor of London, losing to Steven Norris. She retired from the House of Lords on 22 July 2020, and died in January 2025, at the age of 85. She was awarded the Freedom of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on 19 January 2011.
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