'Seize the Day': Inaugural Carnegie Lecture by Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
Britain’s greatest Paralympic athlete Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson visited Glasgow during the year of the Commonwealth Games to present the Inaugural Andrew Carnegie Lecture ‘Seize the Day’ on Monday 17 March 2014.
The evening was hosted in the Bute Hall by Dr Heather Reid OBE (DUniv 210), Scottish meteorologist and former television presenter.
Baroness Grey-Thompson competed in five Paralympic Games, winning 11 Gold Medals, and is acknowledged as one of the most gifted and courageous sportswomen of her generation. In addition to her outstanding Paralympic achievements, she won the London Wheelchair Marathon a total of six times between 1992 and 2002.