Jennifer Forwood, 11th Baroness Arlington

Who is Jennifer Forwood, 11th Baroness Arlington?

Jennifer Jane Forwood, 11th Baroness Arlington is the daughter of General Sir Eustace John Blois 'John' Nelson and Lady Margaret Jane Fitzroy, the sister of the 9th Duke of Grafton.

On 8 December 1965, she married Cpt. Rodney Simon Dudley Forwood, a younger son of Sir Dudley Forwood, 3rd Baronet. They have two sons:

Hon. Patrick John Dudley Forwood

Hon. James Roland Nelson Forwood

She was educated at Downham School for Girls, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex.

In May 1999, she succeeded as Baroness Arlington when the abeyance of the barony was terminated. She took her seat in the House of Lords on 27 May 1999, and remained in the House until 11 November 1999 when the House of Lords Act 1999 took effect. She made her maiden, and only, speech the week after the death of her husband, who had helped her to prepare it, on 18 October 1999 in a series of questions to the Transport Minister in the Lords, on the subject of speeding.