Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell

Anna Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell (birth name: Anna Dora Creditor ; born April 25, 1901 in Riga , Latvia , † July 1, 1989 in Hampstead , London ) was a British Labor Party politician who was named Life Peeress in 1964 because of Life Peerage Act 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Dora Creditor immigrated to Great Britain from Latvia as a toddler in 1904 with her parents. After her marriage to Isaac Frost in 1921, which resulted in a son, divorced in 1937, she married Hugh Gaitskell in 1937 , who later became a Member of the House of Commons , Chancellor of the Exchequer, and long-time leader of the Labor Party.

After the death of her husband on January 18, 1963, she was raised to the nobility almost a year later by a letters patent dated January 23, 1964 as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Gaitskell, of Egremont in the County of Cumberland and was thus up to her death a member of the House of Lords, where it is the faction of the Labor Party joined. 1966 it was approved by the University of Leeds , a honorary doctorate of the rights conferred (Hon. LL.D.).

In addition, Baroness Gaitskell committed, which at times delegates of the United Nations General Assembly and trustee in the English-German Federation ( Anglo-German Federation ) was 1977-1989 in the nonpartisan Committee for Human Rights ( All Party Committee for Human Rights ).

Web links

• Anna Gaitskell at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Anna Dora Creditor, Baroness Gaitskell on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
• Entry in the Center for Advancement of Women in Politics