Inga-Stina Robson, Baroness Robson of Kiddington

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Inga-Stina Robson, Baroness Robson of Kiddington (born August 20, 1919 - February 9, 1999 ), also known as Stina Robson , was a British politician of Swedish origin.

She was born As Inga-Stina Arvidsson in a wealthy family in Stockholm, where she attended the Ölinska Girls' School before taking up a secretary position in the London office of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There she met the accountant Sir Lawrence William Robson and married him in 1940. During the Second World War she worked as a translator for the British Ministry of Information .

Robson moved to Kiddington Hall near Woodstock and unsuccessfully supported her husband's candidacy for the Liberal Party in Banbury in the British general election in 1950 . In the preparations for the general election in 1955 , Lawrence Robson was the nominee for Eye , but he was previously appointed to a government commission and therefore did not stand for election, but encouraged his wife to fight for the seat on her own behalf, but she won no success. Later in the same year she was Friedensrichterin ( magistrates ).

Robson ran in Eye again for the 1959 general election and then 1964 and British general election in 1966 in the Gloucester constituency . Although she missed a seat in the House of Commons , she was elected to the Rural District Council in Chipping Norton .

In 1968 she became president of the Women's Liberal Federation , but resigned from that office in 1970 when she was elected president of the Liberal Party. As president, she campaigned against radicalism and in particular against the drafts of the National League of Young Liberals . She was raised to Life Peeress in 1974 as Baroness Robson of Kiddington , of Kiddington in the County of Oxfordshire, and in the House of Lords spokeswoman for the Liberals on agriculture and the environment. In 1982 she succeeded her husband as Chair of the National Liberal Club and also as Chair of the Anglo-Swedish Society . She became a member of the Liberal Democrats and in 1988 chaired a committee to investigate fraud in the European Union . She resigned as Justice of the Peace in 1989, at a time when she was the longest-serving Justice of the Peace in the country. In 1993 she became party spokeswoman for health.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Duncan Sutherland: Robson, Inga-Stina , in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
personal data
SURNAME Robson, Inga-Stina, Baroness Robson of Kiddington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arvidsson, Inga-Stina (maiden name); Robson, Stina (short form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Liberal Party)
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1999