Beatrice Seear, Baroness Seear

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Beatrice Nancy Seear, Baroness Seear PC ( August 7, 1913 - April 23, 1997 ) was a British university professor , expert on human resources , the personality of the women's movement and politician of the Liberal Party and later the Liberal Democrats , which between 1950 and 1970 at seven general election unsuccessfully for a parliamentary seat in the house of Commons had a candidate and 1971 due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as Life Peeress member of the house of Lords was.

Life

University professor and unsuccessful lower house candidates

After visiting the Croydon High School graduated Beatrice Seear study at Newnham College of the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics and was on completion of the Stiums 1936-1946 HR Manager at C & J Clark Ltd. During the Second World War, from 1943 to 1945 , she also worked part-time in the Production Efficiency Authority of the Ministry of Aircraft Production .

After the end of the war, she became a teacher and then a reader for personnel management at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1946 , where she taught until 1978.

In addition, she began her political career in 1950 with the Liberal Party and ran for a member of the House of Commons for the first time unsuccessfully in the general election on February 23, 1950 and October 25, 1951 in the constituency of Hornchurch . Their candidacies in the constituency of Truro in the general election on May 26, 1955 and October 8, 1959 were just as unsuccessful as in the elections on October 15, 1964 in the Epping constituency .

Beatrice Seear, who was President of the Liberal Party between 1964 and 1965, ran unsuccessfully for a member of the House of Commons in the general election on March 31, 1966 in the Rochdale constituency and most recently in the general election on June 18, 1970 in the Wakefield constituency .

House of Lords

Beatrice Seear, who was president of the Fawcett Society , which campaigns for women's rights between 1970 and 1985 , was admitted to the nobility by a letters patent dated May 18, 1971 as a life peeress entitled Baroness Seear , of Paddington in the City of Westminster and was thus a member of the House of Lords until her death.

In the following years she took on numerous offices and functions in scientific and social organizations, and was among other things President of the Authority for the Review of Top Salaries ( Top Salaries Review Board ) between 1971 and 1984 and at the same time a member of the Council of the Industrial Society . She also served as President of the British Standard Institute from 1974 to 1977 . She was also active in 1974 as President of the Women's Liberal Foundation and was also a member of the Hansard Social Commission for electoral reforms from 1975 to 1976 .

Baroness Seear, who was President of the Institute for Human Resource Management from 1977 to 1979, was Visiting Professor of Human Resource Management at City University London from 1980 to 1987 .

In the House of Lords was Baroness Seear in 1985 a member of the Privy Council , was from 1984 to 1988, first chairman of the faction of the Liberal Party ( Leader of the Liberal Party ) and then from 1988 until her death as Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats Deputy Leader of her party's faction.

Publications

  • A career for women in industry , Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1964
  • Policies for incomes , Liberal Publication Department, London, 1967
  • Training: the fulcrum of change , British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education, London, 1976
  • Interdependence and survival: population policies and environmental control , Wyndham Place Trust, London, 1976
  • Women in the penal system. Report for the Howard League for Penal Reform , 1986
  • Education: a quantum leap? , Hebden Royd Publications, Hebden Bridge, 1988

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personal data
SURNAME Seear, Beatrice, Baroness Seear
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seear, Beatrice Nancy, Baroness Seear (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British university lecturer, suffragette and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1913
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1997