to the full committee of the MCC and latterly became a Trustee. She was made a director of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. in 1997, later becoming an ex officio Vice-president. She was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands in 1997, and was President of the Lady Taverners charity from 2001 to 2011. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours, and in October 2010 was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, the first woman to achieve this accolade. She became one of the first female directors of the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2010. On 19 November 2010, it was announced that she was to be ennobled to sit in the House of Lords as a Conservative Party peer. "I was completely taken by surprise when I took the call from the Prime Minister in September", Heyhoe Flint said. "Obviously I am really thrilled at my appointment but still very humbled at the thought of joining such a historic institution ... My background in sport, journalism, charity and community work will I hope stand me in good stead, and I hope I can make a positive contribution as a working peer. I will certainly look forward to the commute from one Lord's to another Lords." She was subsequently invested as a life peer on 21 January 2011 taking the title Baroness Heyhoe Flint, of Wolverhampton in the County of West Midlands. The formal designation of her title without a hyphen broke a rule that peerage titles could only have one word, previously observed by the likes of Lord Lloyd-George, Lord Alanbrooke, Lord Chuter-Ede and Lord Lloyd-Webber. In April 2011, Heyhoe Flint was granted the freedom of Wolverhampton. In 2021, the MCC announced it would name a gate at Lords after Rachael Heyhoe Flint, and this was formally opened, and a plaque to her unveiled, by her son Ben, along with her protégée Clare Connor, the MCC president, during the August 2022 test match there against South Africa. Personal life On 1 November 1971, Rachael Heyhoe married Derrick Flint (1924–2018). Her husband had a first-class cricket career comprising 10 matches for Warwickshire CCC in 1948–1949 playing as a leg-spin and googly bowler. She adopted a double-barrelled surname, becoming Rachael Heyhoe Flint (erroneously hyphenated in many sources as "Heyhoe-Flint"). Their son Ben (born 1974) also played cricket. He