Diana Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon

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Diana Josceline Barbara Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon (* 7. July 1919 , † 27. November 1992 in Charlbury , Oxfordshire ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party . Since August 1979 she was a Life Peeress member of the House of Lords .

Life

Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard was born to Thomas Arthur Walter Giffard, MBE , and his wife Angela Erskine Trollope (1896–1965), the older daughter and heiress of Sir William Henry Trollope, 10th Baronet . Her parents lived in Chillington Hall , Wolverhampton in the county of Staffordshire . Her father was a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) for Staffordshire and a Justice of the Peace .

Giffard was born into a wealthy family. She received private tuition and attended schools abroad. During World War II she worked as a nurse in a Royal Air Force hospital . Her political and diplomatic talent was discovered by an employee of the Foreign Office . She was seconded to the British Secret Service and worked as an intelligence officer and liaison officer in the War Office . She was used in particular as a liaison officer to the Polish government in exile in London .

In the War Office she also met her future husband, the British army officer , barrister and later politician of the Conservative Party Airey Neave . Both were engaged in top secret and confidential political affairs; however, they never spoke to each other about their respective secret roles in the War Office. Airey Neave was elected to the House of Commons in 1953 for the Abingdon constituency. Neave supported her husband's political work in the following years; she hosted invitations and dinner parties, and did charity work in her husband's constituency. She volunteered for the Conservative Central Office. Airey Neave was killed in March 1979 by a car bomb that exploded under his car as he drove out of the Palace of Westminster car park . The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) claimed responsibility for his murder.

In later years she was a trustee ( Trustee ) of the National Heritage Memorial Fund , the Trust and the Dorneywood Stansted Park Foundation. She was president ( President ) of the Anglo-Polish Conservative Society . She was also the trustee of the Imperial War Museum , a role to which she was particularly interested.

Parts of their correspondence with Margaret Thatcher located in the estate Thatcher in Churchill College of the University of Cambridge .

Membership in the House of Lords

On August 6, 1979, Naeve was made a Life Peeress and became a member of the House of Lords ; she was named Baroness Airey of Abingdon , of Abingdon in the County of Oxford . In the House of Lords she sat for the Conservative Party. On November 7, 1979, with the assistance of Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft of Dunton and Janet Young, Baroness Young , she was officially inducted into the House of Lords. She gave her inaugural address on February 12, 1980 on the National Heritage Bill .

The Hansard documents Neave's contributions to the House of Lords from 1980 to 1986. On April 16, 1986 she spoke for the last time in the Sizewell Power Stations debate.

In the House of Lords 1986-1987 she was a member of the Special Committee in charge of the European Communities (Select Committee on European Communities; Sub-Committee F). She represented the United Kingdom as a member of the North Atlantic Assembly from 1983 to 1984 .

marriage

Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard married on December 29, 1942 Airey Neave, the older son and eldest child of Sheffield Airey Neave (1879-1961) and his first wife Dorothy Middleton († 1943); Sheffield Airey Naeve himself was the grandson of Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Baronet of the line of the Neave Baronets . She was married to Naeve. In 1979 she took the name Neave as her first surname (nickname), with Airey as the second surname and additional name.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Baroness Airey of Abingdon ; Obituary in: The Independent, December 1, 1992
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard, Baroness Airey of Abingdon on thepeerage.com , accessed August 17, 2015.
  3. ^ The Papers of Baroness Thatcher LG., OM., FRS. Janus; Retrieved November 12, 2013
  4. ↑ Former women members of the House of Lords (as at 22 October 2010) (Official website of the Center before Advancement of Women in Politics); Retrieved November 14, 2013
  5. ↑ House of Lords ; Hansard (archive); Retrieved November 14, 2013
  6. ↑ BARONESS AIREY OF ABINGDON Minutes of the House of Lords meeting of November 7, 1979
  7. ^ NATIONAL HERITAGE BILL Text of the speech of February 12, 1980
personal data
SURNAME Neave, Diana, Baroness Airey of Abingdon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neave, Diana Josceline Barbara, Baroness Airey of Abingdon (full name); Giffard, Diana Josceline Barbara (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Conservative Party)
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1919
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1992
Place of death Charlbury , Oxfordshire, England, UK