Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips
Norah Mary Phillips, Baroness Phillips JP (birth name: Norah Mary Lusher ; * August 12, 1910 ; † August 14, 1992 ) was a British Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Lords in 1964 as a Life Peeress under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and was there between 1965 and 1970 as the first woman Parliamentary Secretary of the Government ( Government Whip ). She was also Lord Lieutenant of Greater London between 1978 and 1986 .
Life
After completing her studies at Hampton Training College, Norah Lusher worked as a teacher and was involved in the Labor Party in Fulham at an early stage . In 1930 she married the miner and trade union functionary Morgan Phillips , of how she was active in the Labor Party in Fulham, and from 1944 to 1961 General Secretary of the Labor Party. The marriage resulted in the daughter Gwyneth Patricia , who represented the Labor Party as a member of the House of Commons for 38 years . This in turn was married to the Labor politician John Dunwoody , who was also a member of the House of Commons from 1966 to 1970 and served as Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Health between 1969 and 1970. Her daughter Tamsin Dunwoody was a member of the National Assembly for Wales as a representative of the Labor Party for one legislative period from 2003 to 2007 .
Norah Phillips, who in the following years as a member of the City Council of London dedicated, belonged 1935 to the founders of the National Association of women's associations ( National Association of Women's Clubs ) and was also temporarily magistrate ( Justice of the Peace ). From 1958 she was general secretary of the National Association of Women's Clubs and was also a member of the Women's Council of the British Standards Institution .
By a letters patent dated December 21, 1964, she was elevated to the nobility due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Phillips , of Fulham in the County of Greater London, and thus belonged to the House of Lords until her death as a member.
Shortly after her elevation to the nobility, she became the first woman parliamentary manager of the ruling Labor faction in the House of Lords and held this position with the title of Baroness-in-Waiting until the end of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's reign until 19 June 1970.
In addition, she was committed to consumer protection, for example in 1965 as the founder of the Housewives Trust , an organization aimed at getting better value for money when buying goods. In 1977 she became director of the Association for the Prevention of Shoplifting .
Most recently, Baroness Phillips succeeded Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy Lord Lieutenant of Greater London in 1978 , and held this position for eight years until she was replaced by Edwin Bramall in 1986.
Web links
- Norah Phillips at Hansard (English)
- Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
- Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
- Norah Mary Lusher, Baroness Phillips, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 12, 2016.
- Entry in the Center for Advancement of Women in Politics
Individual evidence
- ^ London Gazette (Supplement). No. 43506, HMSO, London, December 4, 1964, p. 10317 ( PDF , accessed October 10, 2013, English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Phillips, Norah, Baroness Phillips |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Phillips, Norah Mary, Baroness Phillips (full name); Lusher, Norah Mary (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician (Labor Party) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1910 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 1992 |