Frances Davidson, Viscountess Davidson

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Frances Davidson, Viscountess Davidson

Frances Joan Davidson, Viscountess Davidson DBE (* 29. May 1894 , † 25. November 1985 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party , which for 22 years members of the House of Commons was, and in 1964 as Life Peeress due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 Member of the House of Lords .

Life

Frances Dickinson was a daughter of Willoughby Dickinson , who was a member of the House of Commons for the Liberal Party for twelve years and who was a member of the House in 1930 as Hereditary Peer with the title Baron Dickinson , of Painswick in the County of Gloucester of Lords. During the First World War she worked in the care of prisoners of war at the British Red Cross and was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire in recognition for this work .

In 1919 she married the politician John Colin Campbell Davidson , who had represented the Unionist Party or the Conservative Party for the constituency of Hemel Hempstead as a member of the House of Commons for several years and was temporarily Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . After her husband on June 11, 1937 as Viscount Davidson was elevated to the peerage, retired from the House of Commons and became a member of the Upper House, she received the courtesy title Viscountess Davidson and was in the election ( by-election ) on 22 June 1937 as successor elected her husband in the constituency of Hemel Hempstead to the House of Commons, of which she was a member until the general election on October 8, 1959 . In 1952 she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire .

A little over four years after leaving the House of Commons, Frances Davidson was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated January 13, 1964 as a Life Peeress entitled Baroness Northchurch , of Chiswick in the County of Middlesex , and was up to member of the House of Lords after her death. She and her husband were one of the few couples who were simultaneously members of the House of Lords due to their own nobility titles.

The marriage resulted in four children, including sons John Andrew and Malcolm William Mackenzie , who inherited the Viscount Davidson title after the death of their father in 1970 and older brother in 2012, respectively . From the marriage of the second daughter of Jean Elizabeth Davidson Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh , walked among others Anne Jenkin , with the conservative House of Representatives Bernard Jenkin , a son of Patrick Jenkin , is married , and John Gerald Strutt, 6th Baron Rayleigh .

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SURNAME Davidson, Frances, Viscountess Davidson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davidson, Frances Joan, Viscountess Davidson, Baroness Northchurch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1894
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1985