Baroness Cotter, who died 26 January, 2025, was the widow of the life peer, the Baron Cotter (1936-2023), a Liberal Democrat politician, who died 14 November, 2023.
She was the former Eyleen Patricia Wade, daughter of Leonard Wade, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and married the then Brian Cotter in 1963. She was the mother of three children.
Her husband, as Brian Joseph Michael Cotter, served as the Lib Dem MP for Weston-super-Mare, 1997-2005.
Brian Cotter was elected to the Commons in 1997, Brian Cotter was the first Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare to not be from the Conservative Party since 1923. He had contested the same seat in 1992 without success. He was re-elected in 2001, but lost the seat at the 2005 general election. Throughout his time in Parliament, he served as Small Business Spokesman for the Liberal Democrats. In April 2006, it was announced that Cotter would be raised to the peerage and was gazetted in the name, style and title of Baron Cotter, of Congresbury in the County of Somerset. He sat as a Liberal Democrat peer in the House of Lords.
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