Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge

Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge ( born November 3, 1904 in Lochgelly, Fife, † 16 November 1988) was a Scottish politician of the Labour Party from 1964 to 1970 and Minister for the Arts in the government of Harold Wilson.

Biography

Lee, daughter of a miner, studied after school education at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with graduations in education and law.

Her political career began in 1928 when she was elected with 24 years as a candidate of the Labour Party's youngest members of the House of Commons. There, she represented until 1931 the interests of the constituency of North Lanark. As a passionate socialist, she led her former campaign with great commitment.

In 1934 she married the Welsh Lower House MPs Aneurin " Nye " Bevan. When he took within the Labour Party increasingly important positions in the following years, and was finally appointed health minister in the government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee, 1945, she appeared despite her feminist principles out of the limelight and instead support her husband. Yet she herself was from 1945 to 1970 Member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Cannock there.

After the death of her husband in 1960, she was finally appointed in 1964 as Minister for the Arts by Prime Minister Harold Wilson himself in a government. In this position, she reached the doubling of government spending on the arts and in 1969 was also significant force in the creation of the Open University, the largest public university in the UK.

After leaving the government and the House of Commons it was raised in 1970 as a life peer with the title " Baroness Lee of Asheridge " to the peerage, and thus belonged to the House of Lords, the upper house of.

Publications

  • " Tomorrow is a New Day ", 1939 ( autobiography )
  • "My Life with Nye ", 1980 ( autobiography )

Swell

  • " Chambers Biographical Dictionary ", p 905, 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2
  • " Chambers Dictionary of World History ", p 468, 2002, ISBN 0-550-13000-4
  • Labour Member
  • Member of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)
  • Minister (United Kingdom)
  • Life peer
  • Member of the House of Lords
  • Politicians (Scotland )
  • Politicians ( 20th century)
  • Scotsman
  • Briton
  • Born in 1904
  • Died in 1988
  • Woman
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