Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington

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Evelyn Joyce Denington, Baroness Denington DBE (born August 9, 1907 in Woolwich , London , England , † August 22, 1998 in Brighton , Sussex , England) was a British politician. She was chairwoman of the Greater London Council from 1975 to 1976 .

Youth and beginnings of the career

Denington was born Evelyn Joyce Bursill in 1907; her parents were Philip Charles Bursill and Edith Rowena Montford. Denington attended Blackheath High School , Bedford College and Birkbeck College , where she did evening classes. In 1927 she became the editorial assistant of Architecture and Building News , but left these jobs in 1931 to retrain to become a teacher. In 1938 she joined the Secretariat of the National Association of Labor Teachers and remained there until 1947. She was employed as a teacher in London elementary schools until 1950. In 1935 she married Cecil Dallas Denington, who worked for a securities dealer.

politics

She and her husband were elected to St Pancras Borough Council in 1945 , of which she was a member until 1959. A year later she was elected to the London County Council and from 1965 she belonged to its successor organization, the Greater London Council.

She was a member of the Stevenage Development Corporation from 1950 - Stevenage had been developed into a New Town under the New Towns Act 1946 - and its chairman in 1966. In the same year she was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire . She held her position in Stevenage until the development company was dissolved in 1980. During her tenure, the center of Stevenage became the UK's first fully pedestrianized street. She became an honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal Town Planning Institute .

After the creation of the Greater London Council, she became Chair of the Housing Committee. From 1967 to 1973, when Labor was in the opposition, she was Labor Deputy Leader in the Council. From 1973 to 1975 she was chairman of the transport committee and introduced that pensioners could use buses free of charge. It also stopped the construction of city ​​highways in London. In 1974 she was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and from 1975 to 1976 she was Chair of the Greater London Council.

She retired from the Greater London Council in 1977. She was created on July 10, 1978 as Baroness Denington , of Stevenage in the County of Hertford as a Life Peer .

Death and legacy

Denington and her husband's marriage remained childless. The couple retired to Hove . After a heart attack, Denington died on August 22, 1998 at the age of 91 in Brighton .

Evelyn Denington Road in Newham, London was named in her honor .

supporting documents

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 44004, HMSO, London, June 3, 1966, p. 6539 ( PDF , accessed June 6, 2009, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 46310, HMSO, London, June 7, 1974, p. 6799 ( PDF , accessed June 6, 2009, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 47590, HMSO, London, July 13, 1978, p. 8395 ( PDF , accessed June 6, 2009, English).

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personal data
SURNAME Denington, Evelyn, Baroness Denington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Denington, Evelyn Joyce, Baroness Denington
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Woolwich , London , England
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1998
Place of death Brighton , Sussex , England