The Baroness West of Spithead died 23 September, 2026.
She was the wife of Alan West, Baron West of Spithead, GCB, DSC, PC (born 21 April, 1948), a retired admiral of the Royal Navy and formerly, from June 2007 to May 2010, a Labour Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the British Home Office with responsibility for security and a security advisor to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Prior to his ministerial appointment, he was First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from 2002 to 2006.
The former Rosemary Anne Linington Childs, was born in 1949, daughter of Philip David Childs (1906-1995), and his wife the former Blanche Apperley Gillam (1910-1990); & she married in 1973, Alan West, by whom she had issue, two sons William and Alexander, and a daughter, Polly.
Her husband was raised to the peerage for life, 9 July, 2007, as Baron West of Spithead, of Seaview in the County of Isle of Wight.
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