Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell

Anna Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell (birth name: Anna Dora Creditor; born April 25, 1901 in Riga, Latvia; † July 1, 1989 ) was a British politician of the Labour Party, which in 1964 as a result of the Life peerages Life Peeress Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Dora Creditor emigrated in 1904 as an infant with her parents from Latvia to Britain. After their marriage in 1921 with Isaac Frost, from which emerged a son, was divorced in 1937, she married Hugh Gaitskell in 1937, who was a Member of the House of Commons, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the Labour Party for many years later.

After the death of her husband on January 18, 1963, she was charged nearly a year later by a Letters Patent dated 23 January 1964 as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Gaitskell, of Egremont in the County of Cumberland in the peerage, and was thus up to her death a member of the House of Lords, in which she the Group of the Labour Party joined. 1966 her an honorary Doctor of Laws ( Hon. LL.D. ) was conferred by the University of Leeds.

In addition, Baroness Gaitskell committed, the delegates of the General Assembly of the United Nations and trustee in the English- German Federation ( Anglo - German Federation) was temporarily 1977-1989 in the partisan Committee for Human Rights ( All Party Committee for Human Rights ).