Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford

Hazel Osborne Byford, Baroness Byford, DBE, DL (born 14 January 1941) is a retired[1] member of the House of Lords, where she served as Opposition Parliamentary Spokesman for Food, Farming and Rural Affairs from 1997 to 2007.

Her father, Sir Cyril Osborne, was Conservative MP for Louth, Lincolnshire from 1945 to 1969.

She was raised to the Peerage for life as Baroness Byford, of Rothley in the County of Leicestershire in 1996,[2] having been appointed a DBE[3] in 1994.

[citation needed] From 2007 to 2010 she served as president of the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers.

In 2008, Byford received an Honorary Doctorate of Science (Hon DSc) from Nottingham Trent University in recognition of her outstanding contribution and commitment to agriculture and rural life.