Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes

Rachel Trixie Anne Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes, AM, FRSA ( born July 17, 1927 in Parkes) is an Australian-born dentist, politician of the Conservative Party and Life Peeress. She is the only Australian woman who wears such a title.

Life and career

Gardner was in Parkes as Rachel ( Trixie ) McGirr was born as the daughter of Greg McGirr, a former chairman of the New South Wales Labor Party (March- July 1923 ) and Rachel Miller. It was known very early as Trixie. She attended the Monte Sant Angelo Mercy College in Sydney.

Trixie Gardner is a dentist. She graduated in 1954 from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery ( BDS) and later studied at the Cordon Bleu de Paris. She was 1968-1978 Councillor of Westminster City Council and Mayor from 1987 to 1988 (Lady Mayoress ).

In 1970, she joined the Conservative Party against Barbara Castle of the Labour Party in Blackburn and 1974 against John Pardoe of the Liberal Party in the constituency of North Cornwall. In 1971 she was a judge for Peace North Westminster, which it remained until 1997.

From 1970 to 1973 Gardner was a member of the Greater London Council for Havering and 1977-1986 for Enfield Southgate. In the National Heart Hospital from 1974 to 1990 she was Director ( Governor ). From 1974 to 1997 she served on the Industrial Tribunal Panel for London. From 1978 to 1982 she was president ( chairman ) of the Supervisory Board (Board ) of the European Union of Women. During the same period, she was deputy chairman of the Conservative Party as a representative of women.

Gardner was 1982-1988 British representative at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. From 1984 to 1990 she was a member of the London Electricity Board ( LEB). She was director of the Gateway Building Society from 1987 to 1988 and the Woolwich Building society of 1988 to 1993. From 1985 to 1990, Gardner was Vice-President ( Vice - President) of the Building Societies Association and from 1990 to 2002 at the National House Building Council.

She was deputy chairman of the NE Thames RHA 1990-1994 and chairman of the British plan International from 1989 to 2003. From 1993 to 1996 she was chairman of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust from 1994 to 1997 at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust. From 1992 to 1998 she was a member of the Trusteeship Council ( trustee ) of the parlamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety. She became a member of The Cook Society UK, where it was in 1996 chairman in 1993.

Membership in the House of Lords

Gardner was appointed on 19 June 1981 Life Peeress as Baroness Gardner of Parkes, of Southgate in Greater London and of Parkes in the State of New South Wales and Commonwealth of Australia. She was nominated for her work in the local government within 20 years, the first Australian woman. Your inaugural speech in the House of Lords held on 29 June 1981. Topics of political interest as it is called on the website of the House transportation, housing, health, planning and energy. As states of interest is called the States of the Commonwealth, Latin America and Scandinavia.

From 1999 to 2002 she was Deputy Chair of Committees and Deputy Speaker. From 2003 to 2005 she served on the Information Select Committee. Since 2005 she is a member of the Delegated Powers Committee. In October 2011 there was a discussion about pedal - powered tricycles, pointed at the Gardner to the dangers.

  • Session 1997/1998: 201 days (of 228)
  • Session of April 1, 2001 to March 31, 2002: 124 days
  • Session of April 1, 2002 to March 31, 2003: 137 days
  • Session of April 1, 2003 to March 31, 2004: 163 days
  • Session of April 1, 2004 to March 31, 2005: 144 days
  • Session of April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006: 130 days
  • Session of April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007: 145 days
  • Session 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008: 147 days
  • Session 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009: 146 days
  • Session 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010: 139 days
  • Session of April 1, 2010 to 30 June 2010: 25 days
  • Session 1 July 2010 to 30 September 2010: 17 days
  • Session 1 October 2010 to 31 December 2010: 49 days
  • Session 1 January 2011 to 31 March 2011: 46 days
  • April 2011: 7 days ( 7 )
  • May 2011: 15 days ( 15 )
  • June 2011: 17 days ( out of 17)
  • July 2011: 13 days ( out of 13)
  • August 2011: 1 day ( 1 )
  • September 2011: 8 days ( 8 )
  • October 2011: 14 Days ( 18 )
  • November 2011: 18 days ( 18 )
  • December 2011: 13 days ( out of 13)
  • January 2012: 14 Days ( 14 )
  • February 2012: 14 days ( 14 )
  • March 2012: 17 days ( out of 17)
  • April 2012: 5 days ( out of 5)
  • May 2012: 13 days ( out of 13)
  • June 2012: 13 days ( out of 13)

For meeting days she is regularly present in the period since 2001.

Honors

In 1956, she received her diploma from the Cordon Bleu Paris. In 1997 she became an honorary doctorate ( Hon Dr) Middlesex University. From 2003 to 2007 she was an honorary vice-president of the Women's Section of the British Legion. On 4 April 2007 she was Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney.

2010 Gardner received the Alumni Award for International Achievement of the University of Sydney.

Family

Her uncle James McGirr was Labour Prime Minister from 1947 to 1952 New South Wales. Her nephew Dr. Jack McGirr has worked as a dentist in Lane Cove and a former mayor there. Another nephew is a lawyer and was a supported by the National Party of Australia candidate in an election in New South Wales.

Her husband was Kevin Gardner ( 1930-2007 ). He was also born in Australia. He attended Waverley College and won a scholarship to the University of Sydney to study dentistry. In 1954, he won the Arnott Prize for Oral Surgery. He spent a year as a member of the teaching staff at the Sydney Dental Hospital before he came to London in 1955. He married in 1956 Trixie McGirr in Paris and they were directed in London. In May 1982, a year after they had come into the House of Lords, he was elected to the Westminster City Council, where she was Councillor since 1968. He was the first Australian who became Lord Mayor of the City of Westminster. In 2006 he was re-elected at the age of 75 years as a Councillor.

Your Catholic faith was important in both their lives. They had three daughters, one of which ( Joanna ) 2008-2009 Mayor (Lady Mayoress ) of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea was in London. Kevin Gardner died in February 2007.

Trixie Gardner can trace their roots back to Ireland and John McGirr, married a resident of Moneen, Louisburg in Co Mayo Mary O'Sullivan from North Cork. James and Mary's son Gregory ( † 1949) was Baroness Gardner's father.

More offices

From 1966 to 1971 she was a member of the Inner London Executive Council NHS and 1968-1976 in the Standing Dental Advisory Committee for England and Wales. From 1974 to 1981 she was one of Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea Area Health Authority and from 1980 to 1989 the Department of Employment 's Advisory Committee on Women's Employment on.

From 1980 to 1982 she was a member of the North Thames Gas Consumer Council. From 1984 to 1986 and from 1987 to 1991 she was a member of the General Dental Council. Until 1997, she served on the executive of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and has this function again since 2008. Between 2000 and 2002 she was a British representative at the Euro - Mediterranean Women's Forum.

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