Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes

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Rachel Gardner with Steve McCabe , 2011.

Rachel Anne Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes , AM , FRSA (* 17th July 1927 in Parkes ) is in Australia -born dentist , politician of the Conservative Party and Life Peeress . She is the only Australian woman to hold such a title.

life and career

Gardner was born Rachel ( Trixie ) McGirr in Parkes , the daughter of Greg McGirr , a former chairman of the New South Wales Labor Party (March – July 1923) and Rachel Miller. She became known as Trixie very early on. She attended Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College in Sydney .

Gardner is a dentist . She graduated from the University of Sydney in 1954 with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) and later studied at the Cordon Bleu de Paris . She was Councilor of Westminster City Council from 1968 to 1978 and Mayoress ( Lady Mayoress ) from 1987 to 1988 .

In 1970 she stood for the Conservative Party against Barbara Castle of the Labor Party in Blackburn and in 1974 against John Pardoe of the Liberal Party in the constituency of North Cornwall . In 1971 she became a Justice of the Peace for North West Minster, which she remained until 1997.

From 1970 to 1973 Gardner was a member of the Greater London Council for Havering and from 1977 to 1986 for Enfield-Southgate . She was Governor of the National Heart Hospital from 1974 to 1990 . From 1974 to 1997 she was a member of the Industrial Tribunal Panel for London . From 1978 to 1982 she was chairman ( chairman ) of the supervisory board ( board ) of the European Union of Women . During the same period she was deputy chairwoman of the Conservative Party, representing women.

Gardner was the British representative at the UN commission on the status of women from 1982 to 1988 . From 1984 to 1990 she was a member of the London Electricity Board . She was director of the Gateway Building Society from 1987 to 1988 and the Woolwich Building Society from 1988 to 1993. From 1985 to 1990 Gardner was vice president of the Building Societies Association and from 1990 to 2002 the National House Building Council .

She was Vice-Chair of NE Thames RHA from 1990 to 1994 and Chair of UK Plan International from 1989 to 2003. From 1993 to 1996 she was Chair of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and from 1994 to 1997 of the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust . From 1992 to 1998 she was a member of the Trustee of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety . In 1993 she became a member of The Cook Society UK , where she was chairman in 1996.

Membership in the House of Lords

Gardner was named Life Peeress as Baroness Gardner of Parkes , of Southgate in Greater London and of Parkes in the State of New South Wales and Commonwealth of Australia on June 19, 1981 . She was appointed as the first Australian woman to be appointed for her work in local government within 20 years. She gave her inaugural address at the House of Lords on June 29, 1981. She lists transportation, housing, health, planning and energy as subjects of political interest on the House of Lords website. She lists the Commonwealth , Latin America and Scandinavia as states of interest .

From 1999 to 2002 she was Deputy Chair of Committees and Deputy Speaker . From 2003 to 2005 she was a member of the Info Select Committee . She has been a member of the Delegated Powers Committee since 2005 . In October 2011 there was a discussion about pedal-operated tricycles, during which Gardner pointed out the dangers.

  • 1997/1998 session: 201 days (out of 228)
  • Session period April 1, 2001 to March 31, 2002: 124 days
  • Session period April 1, 2002 to March 31, 2003: 137 days
  • Session period April 1, 2003 to March 31, 2004: 163 days
  • Session period April 1, 2004 to March 31, 2005: 144 days
  • Session period April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006: 130 days
  • Session period April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007: 145 days
  • Session period April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008: 147 days
  • Session period April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009: 146 days
  • Session period April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010: 139 days
  • Session period April 1, 2010 to June 30, 2010: 25 days
  • Session period July 1, 2010 to September 30, 2010: 17 days
  • Session period October 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010: 49 days
  • Session period January 1, 2011 to March 31, 2011: 46 days
  • April 2011: 7 days (out of 7)
  • May 2011: 15 days (out of 15)
  • June 2011: 17 days (out of 17)
  • July 2011: 13 days (out of 13)
  • August 2011: 1 day (of 1)
  • September 2011: 8 days (out of 8)
  • October 2011: 14 days (out of 18)
  • November 2011: 18 days (out of 18)
  • December 2011: 13 days (out of 13)
  • January 2012: 14 days (out of 14)
  • February 2012: 14 days (out of 14)
  • March 2012: 17 days (out of 17)
  • April 2012: 5 days (out of 5)
  • May 2012: 13 days (out of 13)
  • June 2012: 13 days (out of 13)

She has been regularly present at meeting days since 2001.

Honors

In 1956 she received her diploma from the Cordon Bleu Paris . In 1997 she received an Honorary Doctorate ( Hon Dr ) from Middlesex University . From 2003 to 2007 she was Honorary Vice-President of the Women's Section of the British Legion . On April 4, 2007, she became an Honorary Fellow at the University of Sydney .

In 2010 Gardner received the University of Sydney's Alumni Award for International Achievement .

family

Her uncle James McGirr was Labor Prime Minister of New South Wales from 1947 to 1952 . Your nephew Dr. Jack McGirr is a dentist in Lane Cove and a former mayor there. Another nephew is a lawyer and was a National Party of Australia- backed candidate in an election in New South Wales.

Her husband was Kevin Gardner (1930-2007). He was also born in Australia . He attended Waverley College and won a scholarship to the University of Sydney to study dentistry. In 1954 he won the Arnott Prize for Oral Surgery . He spent a year teaching staff at the Sydney Dental Hospital before moving to London in 1955. He married Trixie McGirr in Paris in 1956 and they set up shop in London. In May 1982, a year after she entered the House of Lords, he was elected to Westminster City Council, where she had served as Councilor since 1968. He was the first Australian to become Lord Mayor of the City of Westminster . In 2006, at the age of 75, he was re-elected as Councilor.

Their Catholic faith was important in both lives. They had three daughters, one of whom (Joanna) was Mayoress ( Lady Mayoress ) of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London from 2008 to 2009 . Kevin Gardner died in February 2007.

Trixie Gardner can trace her roots back to Ireland and John McGirr, a resident of Moneen , Louisburg, Co Mayo who married Mary O'Sullivan of North Cork . James and Mary's son Gregory († 1949) was Baroness Gardner's father.

Other offices

She was a member of the Inner London Executive Council NHS from 1966 to 1971 and of the Standing Dental Advisory Committee for England and Wales from 1968 to 1976 . From 1974 to 1981 she was a member of the Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea Area Health Authority and from 1980 to 1989 the Department of Employment's Advisory Committee on Women's Employment .

From 1980 to 1982 she was a member of the North Thames Gas Consumer Council . From 1984 to 1986 and from 1987 to 1991 she was a member of the General Dental Council . Until 1997 she was a member of the Executive of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and has held this position again since 2008. From 2000 to 2002 she was the British representative at the Euro-Mediterranean Women's Forum.

literature

  • Elizabeth Sleeman in: The International Who's Who of Women 2002 , Europa Publications Ltd , 2001, ISBN 978-1-85743-122-3
  • Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: Clan Chiefs, Scottish Feudal Barons . 107th edition. Volume II. Boydell & Brewer Inc., Singapore 1993, ISBN 0-9711966-2-1 , pp. 1525 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of Minister 'Interests Publication on the Cabinet Office website , accessed November 18, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Rachel Trixie Anne McGirr, Baroness Gardner of Parkes on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
  3. ↑ London West End pedicabs need licenses, peers say article on BBC News of October 10, 2011
  4. ↑ House of Lords: Members 'expenses Members' expenses on the House of Lords website , accessed November 18, 2012
  5. ^ The Rt Hon Baroness Gardner of Parkes AM (BDS '54 Hon Fellow '07) Publication on the University of Sydney website , accessed November 18, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Gardner, Trixie, Baroness Gardner of Parkes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gardner, Rachel Trixie Anne, Baroness Gardner of Parkes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative politician and dentist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Parkes