Aroundtown Magazine Winter 2022 edition
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<strong>Aroundtown</strong> MEETS<br />
<strong>Aroundtown</strong> meets<br />
Professor Dame<br />
Hilary Chapman DBE,<br />
Lord-Lieutenant of South Yorkshire<br />
She’s a professor, a dame, a Doctor of<br />
Medicine, and is now Her Majesty’s<br />
Lord-Lieutenant of South Yorkshire.<br />
But when we meet her at her new office<br />
in Barnsley town hall, she introduces<br />
herself simply as Hilary.<br />
With husband Neil<br />
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We’re in the presence of an<br />
extraordinary woman whose<br />
outstanding commitment to nursing<br />
has made a difference to the lives<br />
of so many - a pioneer whose<br />
impact on the industry is likened to<br />
that of Mary Seacole and Florence<br />
Nightingale. But she’s also<br />
remarkably ordinary with a genuine<br />
and endearing persona, her warmhearted<br />
bedside manner having<br />
clearly never left her.<br />
Now Dame Hilary Chapman is<br />
set to become a voice for the wider<br />
community as she embarks on a<br />
new lieutenancy era to promote the<br />
growth, development and pride of<br />
South Yorkshire.<br />
“This is the county where I was<br />
born, went to school, trained, and<br />
worked. The county I thought I<br />
knew. But I’m looking forward<br />
to exploring and learning things<br />
about South Yorkshire I never knew<br />
before,” she says.<br />
Dame Hilary is the first woman to<br />
be appointed HM Lord-Lieutenant<br />
of South Yorkshire, and indeed the<br />
previous West Riding of Yorkshire,<br />
since the honorary title was initially<br />
bestowed by the Crown in 1660.<br />
Her promotion from deputy<br />
is a momentous occasion for<br />
the county. Not only is she a<br />
woman, but Dame Hilary also<br />
has a public service background<br />
with no links to aristocracy, and<br />
she is much younger than her<br />
predecessors. Her appointment<br />
follows a wave of diversity across<br />
the country’s Lord-Lieutenants,<br />
symbolising the shifting attitudes<br />
within the monarchy to modernise<br />
the historic role and bestow<br />
more responsibilities to the<br />
Queen’s representatives.<br />
Having spent a large proportion<br />
of her career as a chief nurse,<br />
her final role leading Sheffield<br />
Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust<br />
for 12 years, Dame Hilary is<br />
certainly well-equipped to head the<br />
lieutenancy team of 43 deputies in<br />
South Yorkshire.<br />
She follows in the footsteps of<br />
Andrew Coombe who had held<br />
the position since 2015. It is a<br />
requirement that Lord-Lieutenants<br />
must retire on their 75th birthday,<br />
and Dame Hilary officially took
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