Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Joan Margaret Walmsley, Baroness Walmsley (of West Derby in the County of Merseyside) (born 12 April 1943) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. She is currently the party spokesperson on Children, Schools and Families in the House of Lords. She was educated at Notre Dame High School in Liverpool, before attending Liverpool University from where she graduated with a BSc in Biology in 1966, and later completed a PGCE at Manchester Polytechnic in 1979. She worked as a Cytologist at the Christie Hospital in Manchester from 1965 1967 and taught at Buxton College from 1979 1986. She went into public relations and worked for Hill & Knowlton until 1996, then began her own PR consultancy which she closed in 2003.