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词条 Evelyn Emmet, Baroness Emmet of Amberley
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

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| birth_name = Evelyn Violet Elizabeth Rodd
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| office = Member of Parliament for East Grinstead
| term_start = 26 May 1955
| term_end = 3 February 1965
| primeminister = Anthony Eden
| predecessor = Ralph Clarke
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| party = Conservative Party
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Evelyn Violet Elizabeth Emmet, Baroness Emmet of Amberley (née Rodd; 18 March 1899 – 10 October 1980) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Early life

Emmet was the daughter of Lilias Georgina (Guthrie) and the diplomat Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell, and was educated at St Margaret's School, Bushey and at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

Career

She was a member of London County Council from 1925 to 1934, of West Sussex County Council from 1946 to 1967. Emmet was the first Chairman of the Children's Committee of West Sussex County Council and also Chairman of the Child Guidance Committees.[1]

Emmet was a member of the Conservative Women's National Advisory Committee 1951 to 1954.

At the 1955 general election, she was elected as Member of Parliament for East Grinstead. She held the seat until 1965, when she was elevated to a life peerage as Baroness Emmet of Amberley, of Amberley in the County of Sussex,[2] triggering a by-election in East Grinstead.[3]

In the House of Lords, she served as deputy speaker from 1968 to 1977.

See also

  • Baron Rennell

References

  • {{cite book

| chapter = Emmet, Evelyn Violet Elizabeth, Baroness Emmet of Amberley (1899–1980)
| title = A historical dictionary of British women | page = 157
| publisher = Routledge | edition = 2nd | year = 2003 | isbn = 978-1-85743-228-2
}}
  • Evelyn Emmet at the Centre for the Advancement of Women in Politics
  • {{Rayment|date=February 2012}}
  • {{Rayment-hc|date=March 2012}}
  • 1. ^Hansard, House of Lords, Vol. 302, Col. 1173, 19 June 1969
    2. ^{{London Gazette |issue=43511 |date=8 December 1964 |page=10447}}
    3. ^{{London Gazette |issue=43571 |date=9 February 1965 |page=1373}}

External links

  • {{Hansard-contribs | hon-evelyn-emmet | Evelyn Emmet }}
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| years = 1955 – 1965
| before = Ralph Clarke
| after = Geoffrey Johnson-Smith
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15 : 1899 births|1980 deaths|People educated at St Margaret's School, Bushey|Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies|UK MPs 1955–59|UK MPs 1959–64|UK MPs 1964–66|Members of London County Council|Councillors in West Sussex|Conservative Party (UK) life peers|Female life peers|Daughters of barons|Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford|20th-century women politicians

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