Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington
Evelyn Joyce Denington, Baroness Denington DBE (born 9 August 1907 in Woolwich, London, England; † August 22, 1998 in Brighton, Sussex, England) was a British politician. She was from 1975 to 1976 chairman of the Greater London Council.
Youth and beginning of career
Denington was born in 1907 as Evelyn Joyce Bursill; her parents were Philip Charles Bursill and Edith Rowena Montford. Denington attended Blackheath High School, Bedford College and Birkbeck College, where she completed an evening course. In 1927, she was in 1931 to make an editorial assistant of Architecture and Building News, left these jobs to retrain as a teacher. In 1938 she joined the Secretariat of the National Association of Labour Teachers and remained as active until 1947. In London primary schools she worked until 1950 as a teacher. In 1935, she married Cecil Dallas Denington, an employee of a securities dealer.
Policy
She and her husband were chosen in 1945 in the St Pancras Borough Council, to which it belonged until 1959. A year later she was elected to the London County Council and from 1965 she was a member of its successor agency, the Greater London Council.
She was from 1950 a member of the Stevenage Development Corporation - Stevenage had been developed on the basis of the New Towns Act 1946 in a New Town - and 1966 their chairpersons. In the same year, she was elevated to Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Their function in Stevenage filled it out until the dissolution of the development company in 1980. During her tenure, the center of Stevenage to the first complete pedestrian area in the United Kingdom. She was an honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal Town Planning Institute.
After the creation of the Greater London Council, she was chairman of the building committee apartment. During the year 1967 until 1973, when Labour was in opposition, she was Deputy Labour chairman in the Council. 1973 to 1975 she was Chair of the Transport Committee and introduced that retirees are allowed to use buses for free. They also brought a halt to the construction of urban motorways in London. In 1974 she was awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, from 1975 to 1976, she held the position of Chairman of the Greater London Council.
From the Greater London Council in 1977, she moved back. It was created as Baroness Denington, of Stevenage in the County of Hertford for Life Peer on 10 July 1978.
Death and legacy
The marriage of Denington and her husband had no children. The couple retired to Hove to retire back. After a heart attack Denington died on 22 August 1998 at the age of 91 years in Brighton.
In her honor, the Evelyn Denington Road in Newham, London was named.