sentences:  Dean stood for the general secretaryship, but was narrowly defeated by Tony Dubbins, by 78,654 votes to 72,657.Instead, she became the union's deputy general secretary, serving for a single year before resigning.Dean was raised to the peerage in October 1993 as Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, "of Eccles in the County of Greater Manchester" and was appointed to the Privy Council in 1998.