Doreen Miller, Baroness Miller of Hendon

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Doreen Miller, Baroness Miller of Hendon MBE JP (born June 13, 1933 in London ; † June 21, 2014 ibid) was a British Conservative Party politician who had been a life peeress member of the House of Lords since 1993 .

Life

Professional career

After attending Brondesbury and Kilburn High School, Doreen Miller graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science and became a Justice of the Peace in Brent in 1971 . She was initially the director of the administration for family health services of the London Borough of Barnet and most recently its chairman between 1990 and 1994. In addition, she served as National Chairwoman and Executive Director of the 300 Group from 1985 to 1988, and from 1986 to 1992 as Chair of the Women into Public Life campaign and from 1987 to 1990 as a human rights advisor at the international women's organization Soroptimist International (SI).

In addition to her work for the Barnet Family Health Administration , Doreen Miller, who became a member of the Order of the British Empire in 1989 , served as Crown Agent as Crown Agent's senior legal advisor on prosecution to the Lord Advocate of Scotland from 1990 to 1994 . Furthermore, she began her political activities for the Conservative Party in the early 1990s and was treasurer of the Association of Conservative Tories of Greater London between 1990 and 1993 and was also a member of the Commission on Monopolies and Mergers from 1992 to 1993, the forerunner of the later competition commission.

House of Lords

By a letters patent dated October 14, 1993, Doreen Miller was raised to the nobility as a life peeress with the title Baroness Miller of Hendon , of Gore in the London Borough of Barnet . Shortly thereafter carried their introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the House of Lords she belonged to the faction of the Conservative Party.

At the beginning of her membership in the House of Lords, Baroness Miller, who was chairman between 1993 and 1996 and then president of the Conservative Party of Greater London until 1998, served as the so-called Baroness in Waiting in the household of Queen Elizabeth II until 1997 and also Parliamentary Secretary between 1994 and 1997 ( Whip ) the government faction. At the same time, she was spokeswoman for the government group for health from 1995 to 1997 and at the same time between 1996 and 1997 both parliamentary group spokesperson for education and employment, trade and industry and for the environment, and in 1996 also briefly spokeswoman for the group of the ruling Tories for public service.

After the Conservative Party's defeat in the general election on May 1, 1997 and the end of Prime Minister John Major's term in office , Baroness Miller was Whip of the opposition Tory faction until 1999 . At the same time, she was chairwoman of the National Association of Leagues of Hospital and Community Friends from 1997 to 2003.

Furthermore, Baroness Miller was between 1997 and 2006 in the shadow cabinet of the Conservative Party "shadow minister" for trade and industry and at the same time from 1997 to 2000 opposition spokeswoman for the environment, transport and the regions and then until 2003 spokeswoman for the opposition for employment. She also took on the role of opposition spokesperson for education and skills from 2001 to 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baroness Miller of Hendon: Entrepreneur who developed a highly successful cosmetics business before becoming a Whip in the House of Lords
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Doreen, Baroness Miller of Hendon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, Doreen, Baroness Miller of Hendon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2014
Place of death London