Inga-Stina Robson, Baroness Robson of Kiddington

Inga - Stina Robson, Baroness Robson of Kiddington (* August 20, 1919; † 9 February 1999 ), also known as Stina Robson, was an Anglo- Swedish politician.

She was born as Inga - Stina Arvidsson in a wealthy family in Stockholm, where he attended the Ölinska Girls' School before she took a secretarial position in the London office of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There she met the accountant Sir Lawrence William Robson know, and got married this in 1940. During the Second World War, she worked as a translator for the British Ministry of Information.

Robson moved to Kiddington Hall at Woodstock and supported without success the candidacy of her husband for the Liberal Party in Banbury at the British general election, 1950. During the preparations for the general election in 1955 was Lawrence Robson nominated candidate for Eye, but he was previously in a government commission appointed and therefore did not stand for election, but encouraged his wife to fight in their own right for the seat, but while they had no success. Later in the same year, she was peace judge ( magistrates ).

Robson ran in Eye again for the general election in 1959 and then in 1964 and the British general election in 1966 in Gloucester. Although they missed a seat in the House of Commons far, she was elected to Chipping Norton in the Rural District Council.

It was 1968 President of the Women's Liberal Federation, but came back in 1970 from this office when she was elected president of the Liberal Party. As President, she campaigned against radicalism and especially against the designs of the National League of Young Liberals. It was in 1974 as Baroness Robson of Kiddington in the House of Lords spokeswoman liberals on the topics agriculture and the environment. In 1982, she followed your husband as Chair of the National Liberal Club, and also as chair of the Anglo - Swedish Society. She was a member of the Liberal Democrats and directed in 1988 a committee for the investigation of fraud in the European Union. She joined in 1989 as a peace judge back to a time when she was the nation's longest-serving peace judge. It was party spokesperson on health in 1993.