The Baroness Sharples, who died 19 May, 2022, aged 99, was a Conservative party politician, elevated to the Lords following the assassination of her husband, Sir Richard Sharples, Governor of Bermuda.
Pamela Newall was born 11 February, 1923, daughter of Keith William Newall, and was educated at Southover Manor School in Lewes, East Sussex.
Pamela Newall served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force from 1941 to 1946, and was the last woman to sit in Parliament who had served in the armed forces in the Second World War.
Member of the Review Body on Armed Forces Pay, 1979-81; Trustee, Wessex Medical Trust from 1997.
She married firstly, in 1946, Sir Richard Christopher Sharples, KCMG, OBE, MC [1916-1973], by whom she had two sons and two daughters. Her husband was shot on 10 March 1973 at the Governor's mansion in Pembroke, Bermuda. She married 2ndly, in 1977, Group Capt Patrick David de Laszlo [1909-1980], son of the portrait painter, Philip de Laszlo [1869-1937]; she married 3rdly, 1983, Robert Douglas Swan [died 1995].
Pamela Sharples was created a life peer on 18 June 1973 as Baroness Sharples, of Chawton, in the County of Hampshire.
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