About Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie
Irene Tordoff Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie, DBE (née Fennell; 29 April 1942 – 12 March 2026), known as Rennie Fritchie, was a British life peer who was a member of the House of Lords. == Early life and career == Irene Tordoff Fennell was born on 29 April 1942, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frederick Fennell. She was educated at Ribston Hall Grammar School for Girls in Gloucester and had had a long career specialising in training and development. Now described as a "portfolio" worker, she held various positions, including Commissioner for Public Appointments from 1999 to 2005, and President of the Pennell Initiative for Women's Health in Later Life. In the 1970s, she was one of the first full-time women's training advisers and pioneered the training of staff in the then new Equal Opportunities Commission. Using a German Marshall Fellowship awarded in 1985, she drew lessons from the United States of America for the United Kingdom for programmes to improve the status of women. She has published extensively on these topics and contributed regularly on them to programmes on television and radio. She became Chairman of Nominet in 2010.
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