High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Elizabeth Smith, Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill DL (born 4 June 1940), is a British peer and patron of the arts. Her husband was John Smith, the former Labour Party leader. Born Elizabeth Bennett, Smith was educated at Hutchesons' Girls Grammar School and Glasgow University. Baroness Smith is president of Scottish Opera and chairman of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She is also a governor of the English-Speaking Union and a board member of the Centre for European Reform. She was created a life peer in 1995.