Elizabeth Smith, Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill

Elizabeth Margaret Smith, Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill, DL (née Bennett; born 4 June 1940), is a British peer and patron of the arts.

Born Elizabeth Margaret Bennett, Smith was educated at Hutchesons' Girls Grammar School and the University of Glasgow.

[1] Baroness Smith is the president of Scottish Opera and served as the chairman of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 1995 to 2012.

[2] She is also a governor of the English-Speaking Union and a board member of the Centre for European Reform.

[1] Smith received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1998.