May Blood, Baroness Blood

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May Blood, Baroness Blood

May Blood MBE (* 26. May 1938 in Belfast ) is a British politician of the Labor Party .

life and career

May Blood, daughter of William Blood and Mary McKeen, attended Donegall Road Primary School and Linfield Secondary School.

From 1952 to 1990 she worked at the linen mill Mill Company Ltd , where she soon became an active member of the union and shop steward . She helped found the union's women's committee and advocated equality for women in the workplace. She later worked as a manager of Cairn Martin Wood Products from 1991 to 1994. Since 1994 she has been an information officer of the Greater Shankill Partnership Co. Ltd. and a founding member of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition .

Blood was the first woman from Northern Ireland to be named a Life Peer as Baroness Blood , of Blackwatertown in the County of Armagh , in 1999 . She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ulster in 1998, from Queen's University of Belfast in 2000 and from the Open University in 2001 .

In 2007 she published her autobiography Watch my Lips, I'm Speaking .

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personal data
SURNAME Blood, May, Baroness Blood
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blood, May
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast