Baroness Thomas of Walliswood, OBE, DL, who died 6 October, 2023, aged 87, was a businesswoman and a Liberal Democrat politician.
She worked for the National Economic Development Office from 1971 to 1974 and was chief executive of the Council of Europe of the British Clothing Industries from 1974 to 1978. Between 1985 and 1994, she was a school governor. Susan Thomas contested Mole Valley for the SDP-Liberal Alliance in the 1983 and 1987 general elections and Surrey for the Liberal Democrats in the 1994 European Parliament election, but failed to be elected.
She was appointed OBE in 1989, and served as a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Surrey from 1996. On 6 October 1994, she was created a life peer as Baroness Thomas of Walliswood, of Dorking in the County of Surrey, and she sat in the House of Lords until 18 May 2016, at which point she ceased to be a member pursuant to section 2 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014, having failed to attend during the whole of the 2015–16 session without being on leave of absence.
She was born 20 Dec, 1935, as Susan Petronella Arrow, daughter of John Arrow and his wife the former Ebba Fordham; and married in 1958, David Churchill Thomas, CMG (1933-2020), by whom she had issue, three daughters.
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