Emily Blatch, Baroness Blatch
Emily Blatch, Baroness Blatch , CBE , PC , FRSA (born July 24, 1937 in Birkenhead , Cheshire , † May 31, 2005 in London ) was a British politician with the Conservative Party .
She was born Emily May Triggs in Birkenhead in 1937 to Stephen and Sarah Triggs. She went to Prenton High School for Girls and Huntingdonshire Regional College . From the age of 18, she performed from 1955 to 1959 in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force as an air surveillance assistant in the military.
From 1977 to 1989 Blatch was in Cambridgeshire County Council and became its director. She was raised to the nobility on July 4, 1987 as Baroness Blatch , of Hinchingbrooke in the County of Cambridgeshire. From 1991 to 1994 she was Minister of State for Education and from 1994 to 1997 Minister of State for the Home Office . In 1997 she received an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Teesside . She was deputy head of the opposition in the House of Lords for the rest of her life from 2001.
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On September 7, 1963, she married John Richard Blatch AFC , a test pilot in the Royal Air Force, and had four children with him: David (1965–1979), Hon. James Richard (* 1967) and the twins, Hon. Andrew Edward (* 1968) and the Hon. Elizabeth Anne (* 1968).
Blatch died in 2005 of a pancreatic tumor at the age of 68 .
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| SURNAME | Blatch, Emily Blatch, Baroness |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Triggs, Emily May (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Conservative Party politician, member of the House of Lords |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birkenhead , Cheshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 2005 |
| Place of death | London |