Emily Blatch, Baroness Blatch

Emily Blatch, Baroness Blatch, CBE, PC, FRSA ( born July 24, 1937 † 31 May 2005) was a British politician of the Conservative Party.

She was born as Emily May Triggs in Birkenhead, the daughter of Stephen and Sarah Triggs. She went to the Prenton High School for Girls and the Huntingdonshire Regional College. From the age of 18 made ​​from 1955 to 1959 in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force as an air traffic control assistant military service.

From 1977 to 1989 Blatch was in the Cambridgeshire County Council and became its director. She was raised as Baroness Blatch, of Hinchingbrooke in the County of Cambridgeshire in the peerage on July 4, 1987. From 1991 to 1994 she was Minister of State for Education and from 1994 to 1997 Minister of State for the Home Office. In 1997 she received an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Teesside. She was from 2001 Deputy for the rest of her life head of the opposition in the House of Lords.

Family

On September 7, 1963 she married John Richard Blatch AFC, a test pilot in the Royal Air Force and had with him four children: David (* 1965, † 1979), Hon James Richard ( b. 1967 ) and the twins, Hon Andrew Edward (* 1968) and Hon Elizabeth Anne ( b. 1968 ).

Illness and death

Blatch died in 2005 at age 67 from a malignant pancreatic tumor.

  • Member of the House of Lords
  • Life peer
  • Politicians ( 20th century)
  • Politicians ( 21st century)
  • Conservative Party Member
  • Commander of the Order of the British Empire
  • Briton
  • Born in 1937
  • Died in 2005
  • Woman
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