Nora David, Baroness David

Nora Ratcliff David, Baroness David ( born September 23, 1913 † 29 November 2009) was a British politician and member of the Upper House for the Labour Party.

Nora David attended the Girls ' Grammar School in Ashby -de- la- Zouch, and St. Felix School in Southwold, before she studied English at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. She finished her studies in 1935 and married in the same year Richard William David († 1993), with whom she raised them two sons and two daughters.

Political career

In 1965, she was peace judge in Cambridge. From 1968 to 1974 she was councilor at Cambridge and then a member of the County Council in Cambridgeshire.

In 1978 she was appointed as Baroness David, of Romsey in the City of Cambridge for Life Peer and has since been a member of the House of Lords. Their political interests lay in the fields of education, environment, home affairs and children.

From 1979 to 1997, she was spokesperson for the Labour opposition in the Upper House of Education, except for the years 1985-1987, in which it was dedicated to the environmental policy.

Since 1990, she was Chair of the Children Group.