Betty Harvie Anderson

Margaret Betty Harvie Anderson, Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter, OBE, ( born August 12, 1913 in Glasgow, Scotland; † 7 November 1979) was a British politician of the Conservative Party. Since October 1979, she worked as a Life Peeress a formal member of the House of Lords.

Life

Margaret Betty Harvie Anderson was born in 9, London Terrace in Glasgow, the only child of Colonel Thomas Alexander Harvie Anderson ( † 1953) and his wife Margaret Agnes ( Nessie ) Wilson Shearer ( † 1938). Her father was a solicitor and magistrate. She used her middle name " Betty " as a nickname. She attended St Leonards School in St Andrews. In 1939, she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service; she became Lieutenant - Colonel.

Anderson's political career began in local politics. In 1945 she was elected as a council member of the county council of the county Stirlingshire, in the Stirling County Council; this office she held until 1959. She was politically very active and public life in Scotland, a well-known personality.

In the British general election in 1950 and the British general election, 1951, she went to the Conservative Party in the constituency of West Stirlingshire, but without success. In the British general election, 1955, she joined, also unsuccessful, for the Conservative Party in the constituency at Sowerby. In the British general election, 1959, she was elected for the constituency of East Renfrewshire to the House of Commons; it belonged to the Parliament in the ensuing period without interruption until 1979. From 1970 to 1973 she took over the House of Commons the Office of the First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means; she was deputy in this office spokeswoman ( Deputy Speaker) of the British House of Commons. Anderson was the first woman in the office of the Speaker, if only as a Deputy Speakers; the first female Speaker of the House of Commons was later Betty Boothroyd. On January 23, 1979, she volunteered in the SUPPLIES AND SERVICES ( SCOTLAND) debate for the last time in the House of Commons to speak.

In 1974 she became a member of the Privy Council. She was a member (Member) of the Royal Commission on Local Government in Scotland ( 1966-1969 ) and Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Stirlingshire ( 1977-1979 ).

Anderson was married since 1960; They had no children. She lived from 1959 to 1979 on her estate Quarter in Denny in the county of Stirlingshire in Scotland. At their private guests there was one among others Margaret Thatcher. Anderson's house is now run as a Bed and Breakfast Villa.

Membership in the House of Lords

On October 2, 1979 Anderson was appointed Life Peeress and became a member of the House of Lords; they bore the title of baron Skrimshire Quarter of Dunipace in the District of Falkirk. She was nominated for the Conservative party in the House of Lords. The title was made up of the name of her husband Dr John Francis Penrose Skrimshire and the name of the estate on which they lived in Scotland, together. On 31 October 1979 she was formally introduced to the House of Lords. She died a few weeks after their appointment and a few days after their introduction.

Awards

Anderson was in 1955 appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.