Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips

Norah Mary Phillips, Baroness Phillips, of Fulham in the County of Greater London JP (birth name: Norah Mary Lusher; * August 12, 1910; † August 14, 1992 ) was a British politician of the Labour Party, which as Life Peeress due 1964 of Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords and was there between 1965 and 1970 as the first woman Director of the Parliamentary Government (Government Whip ) was. In addition, it was 1978-1986 Lord Lieutenant of Greater London.

Life

Norah Lusher was after studying at the Hampton Training College worked as a teacher and became involved early on in the Labour Party in Fulham. In 1930 she married the miner and union official Morgan Phillips, as in Fulham was active in the Labour Party and 1944-1961 General Secretary of the Labour Party. From the marriage, among others, the daughter Gwyneth Patricia showed that a total of 38 years represented the Labour Party Member of Parliament in the House of Commons. This in turn was married to the Labour politician John Dunwoody, who was from 1966 to 1970 also a deputy in the House of Commons and served 1969-1970 as Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health. Their daughter Tamsin Dunwoody belonged from 2003 to 2007, representing the Labour Party for a term of the National Assembly for Wales as a member.

Norah Phillips, who was active as a member of the City Council of London in the following years, 1935 was one of the founders of the National Association of women's associations ( National Association of Women's Clubs) and was also temporarily Peace Judge ( Justice of the Peace ). Since 1958, she was General Secretary of the National Association of Women's Clubs and was also a member of the Women's Advisory Board of the British Standards Institution.

By Letters Patent of 21 December 1964 it was due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Phillips, of Fulham in the County of Greater London raised to the peerage, and thus belonged to her death in the House of Lords as Member of.

Shortly after being elevated to the peerage, she was the first woman parliamentary secretary of the ruling Labour Group in the House of Lords and has held this function with the title of Baroness -in- Waiting to the end of the reign of Prime Minister Harold Wilson to 19 Juni 1970.

In addition, she was committed to the protection of consumers, such as in 1965 as founder of the Housewives Trust, an organization to obtain a better value for money when purchasing goods. In 1977, she was Director of the Association for the prevention of shoplifting.

Most recently, Baroness Phillips 1978 successor of Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy Lord Lieutenant of Greater London and has held this function for eight years until it was replaced by Edwin Bramall 1986.