- Marion Roe
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Dame Marion Roe
DBEMember of Parliament
for BroxbourneIn office
9 June 1983 – 5 May 2005Preceded by Constituency Established Succeeded by Charles Walker Personal details Born 15 July 1936
LondonNationality 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.
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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
- ^ "Trustees and staff". web site. NBFA. http://www.nbfa.org.uk/about-us/our-trustees/. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
External links
Parliament of the United Kingdom New constituency Member of Parliament for Broxbourne
1983–2005Succeeded by
Charles WalkerCategories:- 1936 births
- Living people
- Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for English constituencies
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs
- Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Members of the Greater London Council
- British female MPs
- UK MPs 1983–1987
- UK MPs 1987–1992
- UK MPs 1992–1997
- UK MPs 1997–2001
- UK MPs 2001–2005
- People educated at Bromley High School
- People educated at Croydon High School
- Conservative MP (UK), 1930s birth stubs
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