1. Mary Doreen Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-super-Mare, is a British scientist specialising in solar power conversion.
23 Facts About Mary Archer
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Mary Archer is married to Jeffrey Archer, a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party.
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Mary Archer Weeden was born in Epsom, Surrey, in December 1944.
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Mary Archer was the younger daughter of Harold N Weeden, a chartered accountant, and Doreen Cox.
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Mary Archer attended Cheltenham Ladies' College, before studying chemistry at St Anne's College, Oxford.
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Mary Archer went on to study for a PhD in physical chemistry at Imperial College London.
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Mary Archer's thesis was titled "Heterogeneous catalysis of inorganic substitution reactions" and was submitted in 1968.
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Mary Archer was a junior research fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1971.
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Mary Archer was a non-executive director of Mid Anglia Radio plc between 1988 and 1995.
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In 1988, Mary Archer joined the Council of Lloyds Insurance Company, becoming chair of the Lloyds Hardship Committee the following year.
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Mary Archer later became its president and is currently its patron.
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Mary Archer is president of the UK Solar Energy Society.
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Mary Archer co-edited Clean Electricity from Photovoltaics ; Molecular to Global Photosynthesis ; The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge: Transformation and Change and Nanostructured and Photoelectrochemical Systems for Solar Photon Conversion.
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In 1994 Lady Mary Archer was a non-executive director of Anglia Television at a time when it was the target of a takeover bid.
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Mary Archer was chair of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for 10 years until 2012, having previously been a non-executive director, and vice-chair of Addenbrooke's Hospital NHS Trust.
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On 24 February 2020, Mary Archer was installed as chancellor of the University of Buckingham.
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Mary Archer served as a trustee of the Science Museum Group from 1990 to 2000, and was appointed its chair in 2015.
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Mary Archer was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to the National Health Service.
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Mary Archer married Jeffrey Archer in July 1966, having met him at Oxford University, where he had been studying for a diploma in education.
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Mary Archer took up a teaching post at Cambridge University which, together with her husband's eventual success as a novelist, saved them from financial ruin.
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In 2001, when Jeffrey Mary Archer was prosecuted for having committed perjury and for perverting the course of justice in the 1987 trial, she appeared at the Old Bailey as a defence witness.
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Jeffrey Mary Archer was convicted and imprisoned for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
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The trial judge, Mr Justice Potts, questioned the veracity of Mary Archer's evidence, suggesting that she too had perjured herself.