Daphne Trimble
{{Notability|1=Academics|date=July 2022}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable
|name = The Lady Trimble
|office = Honorary President
of the Ulster Unionist Party
|leader = Doug Beattie
|term_start = 13 March 2023
|term_end =
|predecessor = May Steele
|successor =
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1953|07}}
|birth_place = Northern Ireland
|death_date =
|party = Ulster Unionist Party
|otherparty = UCUNF (2010)
| spouse = Lord Trimble (died 2022)
}}
Daphne Elizabeth Trimble, Baroness Trimble ({{nee|Orr}}; born July 1953), is a Northern Irish academic and former unionist politician.
Background
Having served as a member of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, she was appointed as a part-time Commissioner in the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) in 2008, and publicly opposed its proposals for a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2008/12/daphne_trimble_explains_why_sh.html Letter dissenting from Bill of Rights proposals]
She resigned from the NIHRC to contest the May 2010 UK general election, unsuccessfully, for the Ulster Conservatives and Unionists in the Lagan Valley constituency.
After graduating in Law from Queen's University Belfast, she married her former lecturer David Trimble in August 1978, acquiring the title of Lady on his elevation in June 2006 to the House of Lords. They have two sons and two daughters (Richard, Victoria, Nicholas, and Sarah).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s21VHD28o0EC&q=%22william+david+trimble%22 |title=Newsmakers |year=2000 |isbn=9780787621124 |accessdate=8 May 2011|author1=Newsmakers |publisher=Gale Research }}
Daphne has also worked in schools across the Armagh area, such as Portadown College.
In August 2022, she endorsed Liz Truss for the leadership of the Conservative Party in that summer's leadership election.{{cite news |title=Tory leadership contender Liz Truss endorsed by Lady Daphne Trimble, as widow claims Lord Trimble's legacy is 'safe with her' |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tory-leadership-contender-liz-truss-endorsed-by-lady-daphne-trimble-as-widow-claims-lord-trimbles-legacy-is-safe-with-her-41919480.html |newspaper=Belfasttelegraph |access-date=18 August 2022}}
In March 2023 she was appointed as the Honorary President of the Ulster Unionist Party.{{Cite news |date=13 March 2023 |title=Lady Daphne Trimble appointed UUP Honorary President | work=Ulster Unionist Pary | url=https://www.uup.org/lady_daphne_trimble_appointed_uup_honorary_president}}