Llin Golding, Baroness Golding

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Llin Golding, Baroness Golding

Llinos "Llin" Golding, Baroness Golding (born March 21, 1933 in Wales as Llinos Edwards ) is a British Labor Party politician .

family

Golding was born as the daughter of former MP Ness Edwards (1897-1968) and his wife Elina Victoria. In June 1957 she married John Roland Lewis. This marriage, which was divorced in 1971, had three children. In her second marriage she was married from August 8, 1980 until his death in 1999 to the MP John Golding (1931-1999).

Education and further career

Golding received her education at the Caerphilly Grammar School for Girls and later attended the Cardiff Royal Infirmary School of Radiography . After initially working as an X-ray technician, she became the assistant to her future husband, John Golding, in 1972. She held this post until his resignation in 1986 and then took over his parliamentary seat. From 1986 to 2001 she represented the Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency in the House of Commons . She did not run for the 2001 general election and resigned from the House of Commons. Instead, she was on July 13, 2001 as Baroness Golding , of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the County of Staffordshire, to the Life Peeres since then belongs to the House of Lords .

When the 1997 Law to Abolish Fox Hunting was passed, she was one of two Labor MPs who opposed it.

When the Fathers 4 Justice group carried out a flour bomb attack on Prime Minister Tony Blair on May 19, 2004 , she was the one who granted the activists access to the building and thus made the attack possible.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.burkespeerage.com/FamilyHomepage.aspx?FID=5422  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.burkespeerage.com  
  2. ^ A b Robert Waller, Byron Criddle: The Almanac of British Politics. Routledge, 1999, ISBN 0415185416 , p. 496.
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 56278, HMSO, London, July 18, 2001, p. 8487 ( PDF , English).
  4. ↑ http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200304/ldhansrd/vo040519/text/40519-04.htm#40519-04_spnew15

literature

  • Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage , Baronetage and Knightage: Clan Chiefs, Scottish Feudal Barons . 107th edition. tape 2 . Boydell & Brewer Inc., Singapore 1993, ISBN 0-9711966-2-1 , pp. 1577 .

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personal data
SURNAME Golding, Llin, Baroness Golding
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Golding, Llinos, Baroness Golding (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Labor Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Wales