Marion Roe

Dame Marion Roe DBE
Member of Parliament for Broxbourne
In office 9 June 1983 – 5 May 2005
Preceded by	Constituency Established
Succeeded by	Charles Walker
Personal details
Born	15 July 1936 (1936-07-15) (age 75) London
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	James Kenneth Roe

Dame Marion Audrey Roe, DBE (born 15 July 1936, London) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom.

Early life

She went to independent Bromley High School for Girls (since 1981 on Blackbrook Lane in Bickley), then the independent Croydon High School. She studied at the English School of Languages in Vevey in Switzerland.

Parliamentary career

She unsuccessfully contested the Barking constituency at the 1979 general election.

She served on the Greater London Council and was Member of Parliament for Broxbourne from 1983 until 2005. A eurosceptic, she is on the council of the right-wing Conservative Way Forward group. She was a junior environment minister in the 1980s and chaired select committees in the 1990s.

She stepped down at the 2005 general election.

In 2010 she became chair of the trustees of the National Benevolent Fund for the Aged, after the death of Winston Churchill (grandson of the former prime minister).^[1]

Personal life

She married James Kenneth Roe in 1958. They have a son and two daughters.

References

1. ^ "Trustees and staff". web site. NBFA. http://www.nbfa.org.uk/about-us/our-trustees/. Retrieved 5 August 2011. 

External links

• They Work For You
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Broxbourne 1983–2005	Succeeded by Charles Walker

Persondata
Name	Roe, Marion
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Date of birth	15 July 1936
Place of birth	London
Date of death
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