Elizabeth Smith, Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill

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Elizabeth Smith, Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill, (born 4 June 1940), is a British peer and patron of the arts. Her husband was John Smith, the former Labour Party leader.

Baroness Smith, she had been created a life peer with the title Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill, of Gilmorehill in the District of the City of Glasgow in 1995, 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 has three daughters, including the Scottish television journalist, Sarah Smith.