Judith Hart, Baroness Hart of South Lanark

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Judith Hart, Baroness Hart of South Lanark DBE PC (birth name: Constance Mary Ridehalgh ; * 18th September 1924 in Burnley , Lancashire , England , † 8. December 1991 in London ) was a British politician of the Labor Party .

Life

At the age of twelve she took the first name Judith and studied after attending the Clitheroe Royal Grammar School at the London School of Economics and the University of London before she worked as a lecturer at a teacher training college (Teacher Training College). In addition, Judith Hart, who was also a member of the Fabian Society, was the branch secretary of the Association of Scientific Workers (AScW).

In the general election of October 8, 1959 , she was elected as a Labor Party candidate for the first time as a member of the House of Commons , where she initially represented the Lanark constituency until its dissolution in 1983 and then the interests of the newly created Clydesdale constituency until 1987 .

After the Labor Party's victory in the general election on October 15, 1964 , she was first Undersecretary in the Ministry for Scotland and then from 1966 to 1967 as Minister of State in the Foreign Office . She then appointed Prime Minister Harold Wilson first as Minister of Social Security and then, after a cabinet reshuffle, in 1968 as Paymaster General , before she was Minister for Overseas Development from 1969 until the end of Wilson's term in June 1970.

When Wilson was again prime minister after the Labor Party's victory in the general election of February 28, 1974 , she was minister for overseas development from 1974 to 1975 without cabinet rank. Within the Labor Party, she was particularly at that time as a party left in the tradition of Clement Attlee , Herbert Stanley Morrison , Aneurin Bevan , Ernest Bevin and Hugh Gaitskell and as a critic of the austerity policies of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey and Interior Minister Roy Jenkins . Most recently she was Minister for Overseas Development during the tenure of Wilson's successor James Callaghan between 1977 and 1979, this time being a member of the Cabinet again.

Judith Hart, who was at times Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City , was also Executive Chairwoman of the Labor Party from 1981 to 1982.

After leaving the House of Commons, she was raised to the nobility as a Life Peeress with the title of Baroness Hart of South Lanark , of Lanark in the County of Lanark, and was then a member of the House of Lords until her death .

Publications

  • Minorities in our society: an address given at the Annual General Meeting of the National Council of Social Service in the Senate House, University of London, 2nd November 1967 , London 1968
  • Aid and liberation: a socialist study of aid policies , London 1973, ISBN 0-575-01617-5
  • Administering an aid program in a year of change: a personal diary: address to the Royal Commonwealth Society , London 1975, ISBN 0-11-580174-X
  • The priority for rural development overseas: address to the Royal Society of Arts , London 1975, ISBN 0-11-580175-8
  • The relationship between the industrialized and developing countries: fourth annual Tom Mboya memorial lecture. delivered by the Rt.Hon. Judith Hart MP, Minister of Overseas Development at Ruskin College, Oxford, 6 February 1975 , London 1975, ISBN 0-11-580171-5

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  1. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: LABOR PARTY: Enough is enough. The Labor Left is storming its own government, more rabid than ever (No. 11/1976)
personal data
SURNAME Hart, Judith, Baroness Hart of South Lanark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ridehalgh, Constance Mary (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Labor Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Burnley , Lancashire , England
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1991
Place of death London