Lady Eccles was further a member of the
Advisory Council on Energy Conservation at the
Department of Energy from 1982 to 1984, of the Widdicombe Inquiry into Local Government and the
Home Office Advisory Panel on Licences for Experimental Community Radio from 1985 to 1986, and of the
British Rail Eastern Board from 1986 to 1992. She was director of
Tyne Tees Television from 1986 to 1994, of
J. Sainsbury plc from 1986 to 1995, and of
Yorkshire Electricity Group plc from 1990 to 1997. Between 1990 and 1999, she was a member of the
Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority and between 1991 and 1996 director of the
National and Provincial Building Society. Since 1998, she is director of the
Times Newspapers Holdings Ltd and of
Opera North and since 2003 of
London Clinic. Eccles was a trustee of the
Charities Aid Foundation from 1982 to 1989 and member of the
British Heart Foundation from 1989 to 1998. Having been trustee for the
York Minster Trust Fund between 1989 and 1999, she has been it again since 2006. On 10 May 1990, she was created a
life peer as
Baroness Eccles of Moulton, of
Moulton in the
County of North Yorkshire and became a member of the
House of Lords. In 1995, Eccles received an Honorary
Doctor of Civil Laws from the
University of Durham. Lady Eccles was later the Chairman of Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow Health Authority from 1988-2000. Eccles was also a United Kingdom Delegate to
The Council of Europe from 2011 to 2021. ==Personal life==