Evelyn Emmet, Baroness Emmet of Amberley

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Evelyn Violet Elizabeth Emmet, Baroness Emmet of Amberley (birth name: Evelyn Violet Elizabeth Rennell Rodd ; born March 18, 1899 - October 10, 1980 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for nine years and 1964 when Life Peeress became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Evelyn Rennell Rodd, daughter of politician and diplomat James Rennell Rodd , completed after visiting the St Margaret's School in Bushey studying at Lady Margaret Hall of the University of Oxford . His marriage to Thomas Addis Emmet in 1923 resulted in two children.

Her political career began when she was elected to the Conservative Tories in 1925 as a member of London County Council , of which she was a member until 1934. After the end of World War II , Evelyn Emmet became a member of the West Sussex County Council in 1946 and remained a member until 1967. At the same time, she served from 1951 to 1954 as a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Conservative Women's National Advisory Committee .

In the general election of May 26, 1955 , she was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Commons for the Tories and represented the constituency of East Grinstead until she resigned on December 31, 1964 . During this time she was President of the Conservative Party between 1954 and 1955.

Shortly before her departure from the House of Commons, she was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated December 8, 1964 based on the Life Peerages Act 1958 as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Emmet of Amberley , of Amberley in the County of Sussex, and thus belonged to the nobility until her death as a member of the House of Lords. In the by -election on February 5, 1965 in the constituency of East Grinstead , made necessary by her departure from the House of Commons , Geoffrey Johnson Smith of the Conservative Party was able to defeat the Liberal Party candidates , Richard G. Holme, and the Labor Party , with 24,896 votes . Jon Evans, who received 14,279 and 6,101 votes, respectively.

During her membership in the House of Lords, Baroness Emmet served as one of the Deputy Speakers of the House of Lords between 1968 and 1977 .

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SURNAME Emmet, Evelyn, Baroness Emmet of Amberley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emmet, Evelyn Violet Elizabeth, Baroness Emmet of Amberley (full name); Rennell Rodd, Evelyn Violet Elizabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1899
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1980