Patricia Hornsby-Smith, Baroness Hornsby-Smith

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Margaret Patricia Hornsby-Smith, Baroness Hornsby-Smith PC DBE (born March 17, 1914 in East Sheen - † July 3, 1985 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was an intermittent member of the House of Commons for twenty years and 1974 when Life Peeress became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Professional career and member of the House of Commons

Patricia Hornsby-Smith, the daughter of a saddler and umbrella maker, worked as a secretary for various companies after attending East Sheen Elementary School and the Richmond County School for Girls . She became involved in the Conservative Party at an early stage and in 1941 became Senior Private Secretary of Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne , who was Minister for Economic Warfare from February 22, 1942 to May 23, 1945 . After the end of the Second World War , she began her real political career in local politics when she was a member of the council of the Municipal Borough of Barnes from 1945 to 1949.

In the general election of February 23, 1950 , Patricia Hornsby-Smith was elected as a Conservative Party candidate in the Chislehurst constituency for the first time as a member of the House of Commons, with a majority of only 167 votes against the then constituency holder of the Labor Party , George Wallace was able to prevail. She was a member of the House of Commons until she was defeated by Labor Party candidate Alistair Macdonald in the general election on March 31, 1966 . Macdonald had a majority of 810 votes.

Junior Minister and Member of the House of Lords

After the conservative Tories won the general election on October 25, 1951 , Pat Hornsby-Smith was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health by Prime Minister Winston Churchill on November 3, 1951 , and held this position until January 18, 1957 one of the key advisers to then Minister of Health Harry Crookshank , Iain Macleod and Robin Turton .

She was then between January 18, 1957 and October 22, 1959 in the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan Under-Secretary of State ( Under-Secretary of State ) in the Home Office ( Home Office ). Together with the also active at this time Undersecretaries Jocelyn Smith and David Renton she was authoritative adviser to the longtime interior minister ( Secretary of State for Home Affairs ) Rab Butler . In her role as Undersecretary in the Ministry of the Interior, she dealt with refugee policy and citizenship issues , among other things . In 1960 she was one of the only three women in Macmillan's enlarged government, along with Mervyn Pike and Edith Pitt .

Most recently, Patricia Hornsby-Smith, who also became Privy Councilor in 1959, became Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance on October 22, 1959 and held this position until December 31 , 1959 . August 1961. During this activity she was one of the closest collaborators of the then Minister John Boyd-Carpenter, together with William Fletcher-Vane , Bernard Braine and Richard Sharples, who were also temporarily acting as Parliamentary Secretaries . On September 1, 1961, she became Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).

In the general election of June 18, 1970 she succeeded in recapturing the constituency of Chislehurst against Alistair Macdonald with a majority of 3363 votes, making her a member of the House of Commons until the general election on February 28, 1974 . In the general election on February 28, 1974, she was defeated by her challenger Geoffrey Edge of the Labor Party, who had a majority of 366 votes.

After leaving the House of Commons, Patricia Hornsby-Smith was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated May 13, 1974 as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Hornsby-Smith , of Chislehurst in Kent, and thus belonged to the nobility until her death House of Lords as a member.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonathan Aitken: Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality , 2013, ISBN 1-4088-3186-4 , p. 56
  2. ↑ Peter Gatrell: Free World ?: The Campaign to Save the World's Refugees, 1956-1963 , 2011, ISBN 1-107-00240-0 , p 43 u. a.
  3. ^ Kathleen Paul: Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era , 1997, p. 159
  4. ^ Ian RG Spencer: British Immigration Policy Since 1939: The Making of Multi-Racial Britain , 2002, ISBN 0-203-43703-9 , p. 131 and a.
  5. ↑ Margaret Thatcher: Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography , 2013, ISBN 0-06-204945-3 , p. 1969
  6. ↑ London Gazette . No. 42457, HMSO, London, September 8, 1961, p. 6547 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  7. ^ UK General Election results 1970
  8. ↑ UK General Election results February 1974
  9. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 46254, HMSO, London, April 2, 1974, p. 4395 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  10. ↑ London Gazette . No. 46290, HMSO, London, May 16, 1974, p. 5935 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Hornsby-Smith, Patricia, Baroness Hornsby-Smith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hornsby-Smith, Margaret Patricia, Baroness Hornsby-Smith, of Chislehurst in Kent (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH East Sheen
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1985