Betty Harvie Anderson, Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter

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Margaret Betty Harvie Anderson, Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter , OBE , (* 12. August 1913 in Glasgow , Scotland ; † 7. November 1979 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party . Since October 1979 she was a formal member of the House of Lords as a Life Peeress .

Life

Margaret Betty Harvie Anderson was born at 9, London Terrace in Glasgow, the only child of Colonel Thomas Alexander Harvie Anderson († 1953) and his wife Margaret Agnes (Nessie) Wilson Shearer († 1938). Her father was a solicitor and justice of the peace . She used her middle name "Betty" as her nickname . She attended St Leonards School in St Andrews . In 1939 she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service ; she became a lieutenant colonel there .

Anderson's political career began in local politics . In 1945, she was a councilor in the County Council of County Stirlingshire , in the Stirling County Council , elected; she held this office until 1959. She was politically active and a well-known figure in Scottish public life .

In the British general election in 1950 and the British general election in 1951 , she stood for the Conservative Party in the constituency of West Stirlingshire , but unsuccessfully. In the British general election in 1955 , she stood, also unsuccessfully, for the Conservative Party in the constituency of Sowerby . In the British general election in 1959 she was elected to the House of Commons for the constituency of Renfrewshire East ; she was a member of parliament until 1979 without interruption. From 1970 to 1973 she was First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means in the House of Commons; in this position she was Deputy Speaker (Deputy Speaker) of the British House of Commons. Anderson was the first woman in the office of speaker, if only as deputy speaker; the first female speaker of the House of Commons later became Betty Boothroyd . On January 23, 1979 she spoke for the last time in the House of Commons as part of the SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (SCOTLAND) debate.

In 1974 she became a member of the Privy Council . She was a member ( Member ) of the Royal Commission on Local Government in Scotland (1966-1969) and Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Stirlingshire (1977-1979).

Anderson had been married since 1960; she had no children. She lived on her Quarter estate in Denny in Stirlingshire, Scotland , from 1959 to 1979 . Margaret Thatcher was among her private guests there . Anderson's house is today as Bed and Breakfast - Landhaus out.

Membership in the House of Lords

On October 2, 1979, Anderson was named a Life Peeress and became a member of the House of Lords ; she was entitled Barones Skrimshire of Quarter , of Dunipace in the District of Falkirk . She was called to the House of Lords for the Conservative Party. The title was made up of the name of her husband Dr John Francis Penrose Skrimshire and the name of the property on which she lived in Scotland. On October 31, 1979, it was officially introduced into the House of Lords. She died a few weeks after her appointment and a few days after her introduction.

Awards

Anderson was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1955 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Anderson, (Margaret) Betty Harvie, Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter (1913-1979), politician ; Entry in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ; Retrieved November 13, 2013
  2. ^ A b c Margaret Betty Harvey Anderson, Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter on thepeerage.com , accessed September 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Betty Harvie Anderson (Baroness Skrimshire) ; Curriculum vitae (official website of the Center for Advancement of Women in Politics ); Retrieved November 13, 2013
  4. ↑ SKRIMSHIRE OF QUARTER Entry on Margaret Betty Harvie Anderson at Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages; Retrieved November 13, 2013
  5. ↑ a b c Quarter Stirling ( memento from November 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) History of the house (with photos); Retrieved November 13, 2013
  6. ^ House of Lords ( Memento of May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); Hansard (archive); Retrieved November 14, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Betty Harvie, Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, Margaret Betty Harvie, Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter (full name); Anderson, Margaret Betty (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow , Scotland, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1979