Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch

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Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch (* 8. May 1903 in Bradford , West Yorkshire , England ; † 28. December 1984 ) was a British politician of the Labor Party . Since 1975 she was a Life Peeress member of the House of Lords .

Life

Mary Elizabeth Henderson Birkinshaw was born the daughter of traveling salesman Herbert Birkinshaw and his wife Isabella Birkinshaw, née Garbutt, in West Yorkshire in northern England. She attended King Edward VI High School for Girls (KEHS) in Birmingham and the Bedford College of the University of London . There she graduated in 1928 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy . She worked as a teacher . From 1940 to December 1941, she worked as a lecturer ( Lecturer worked) at the Workers Educational Association.

During the Second World War she was a volunteer in the war. She first worked as a "Senior Marshall" in the air raid shelter of St Pancras station ( St Pancras air raid shelter ) in London (June 1940-February 1941) and at the hospital in Brentford , County Essex (September-December 1941).

From December 1941 to 1945 she was a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF); she was stationed at various bases and locations. Their locations and activities were at the WAAF locations in Gloucester (December 1941-January 1942), in Morecambe in the County of Lancashire (January-February 1942) and in Bridgnorth in the County of Shropshire (February-April 1942). In June 1942 she was promoted to "Assistant Section Officer". She served in the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) in Great Bromley in Essex (June-October 1942), in Barkway in the county of Hertfordshire (November 1942-February 1943) and Swanage in the county of Dorset (March-July 1943). From 1943 she was Psychiatric Assistant ( Psychiatric Assistant ) on WRAF site in Newtownards , County Down , Northern Ireland (August 1943 to January 1944) in the London Headquarters (Jan-March 1944), and in Eastchurch in the county of Kent (March 1944- April 1945).

After the Second World War she resumed teaching at the Workers' Educational Association; she worked there until 1964 as a teacher ( tutor ). In 1949 she became Justice of the Peace for London. She was a member of the board of directors of the Fabian Society (1950–1985); 1963-1964 she was chairman ( chairman ) of the Fabian Society. For the Fabian Society she wrote articles and political information pamphlets.

She was further chairman ( Chairman ) of the Board of Governors of Charing Cross Hospital [London], (1966-1974), the East London Juvenile Court (1956-1966) and the Fulham Gilliatt Comprehensive School (1974-1979). She was a member of the Joint Governing Body of the Fulham Gilliatt and Mary Boon Schools (1980). She was also Honorary President of the Diplomatic Service Wives' Association (until 1970).

Your written heritage (letter, articles, pamphlets, etc ..) is, together with that of her husband in Churchill College of the University of Cambridge kept.

Membership in the House of Lords

On January 15, 1975, Stewart was named a Life Peer and became a member of the House of Lords ; she carried the title of Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch , of Fulham in Greater London . In the House of Lords she sat for the Labor Party. On January 28, 1975, it was officially introduced to the House of Lords with the help of Barbara Wootton and Annie Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe .

Stewart was politically and socially involved, in particular for hospitals , schools and for the penal system and juvenile justice . Stewart and her husband Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham were thus one of the few couples in the House of Lords who both had titles of nobility in their own right.

Private

Stewart was married twice. She married Robert Godfrey Goodyear's first marriage in 1931; the marriage was divorced again in 1941. On July 26, 1941, she married the Labor politician and later British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Mary Elizabeth Henderson Birkinshaw, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch at thepeerage.com , accessed September 13, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e The Papers of Lord Stewart of Fulham and Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch Biography; Retrieved October 25, 2013
  3. ↑ The London Gazette : No. 46467, p. 721 , Jan. 17, 1975.
  4. ↑ BARONESS STEWART OF ALVECHURCH Minutes of the meeting of January 28, 1975
personal data
SURNAME Stewart, Mary, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Birkinshaw, Mary Elizabeth Henderson (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Labor Party)
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Bradford , West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1984