# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sal-brinton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:38:25.203Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sal-brinton"
name: "Sal Brinton"
slug: "sal-brinton"
description: "Sarah Virginia Brinton, Baroness Brinton, known as Sal Brinton, is a British politician who served as president of the Liberal Democrats from 2015 to 2020. In November 2010 she was nominated to the House of Lords, taking her place on 10 February 2011 having been created Baroness Brinton, of Kenardington in the County of Kent on 4 February. After Jo Swinson lost her seat at the 2019 general election, Brinton and Sir Ed Davey became acting co-leaders of the Liberal Democrats. After Brinton's term as party president ended, her successor Mark Pack also succeeded her as acting co-leader with Davey. Davey was elected as permanent leader of the party in 2020."
tagline: "British politician and life peer (born 1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sal_Brinton_at_Brighton_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1955-04-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.13
  momentum:             8.873239436619716
  historical:           4.633768
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.salbrinton.co.uk"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "سال برينتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal_Brinton%2C_Baroness_Brinton"
    title: "Sal Brinton, Baroness Brinton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal_Brinton"
    title: "Sal Brinton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal_Brinton"
    title: "Sal Brinton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal_Brinton"
    title: "Sal Brinton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1650698"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump