British politician (1923?2014)
Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman
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In office
18 June 1970 ? 8 April 1997
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Preceded by
| Stanley Henig
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Succeeded by
| Constituency abolished
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In office
7 June 1979 ? 14 June 1984
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Preceded by
| Constituency created
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Succeeded by
| Sheila Faith
for
Cumbria and Lancashire North
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Born
| Mary Elaine Kay
(
1923-07-08
)
8 July 1923
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Died
| 4 March 2014
(2014-03-04)
(aged 90)
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Nationality
| British
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Political party
| Conservative
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Spouses
|
Charles Norman Kellett
(
m.
1945; died 1959)
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Children
| 4 (to Charles Norman Kellett)
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Dame Mary Elaine Kellett-Bowman
,
DBE
(
nee
Kay
; 8 July 1923 ? 4 March 2014)
[1]
was a British
Conservative Party
politician, serving as Member of Parliament (
MP
) for the constituency of
Lancaster
for 27 years from 1970 to 1997.
Life and career
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Born Mary Elaine Kay to Walter and Edith (nee Leather) Kay, she was educated at
The Mount School, York
,
St Anne's College, Oxford
, and Barnett House, Oxford, and became a barrister, called to the bar by
Middle Temple
in 1964. She served as a councillor on
Denbigh
Borough Council, 1952?55, and the
London Borough of Camden
, 1968?74. She was also a governor of
Culford School
in
Suffolk
from 1963 to 2003.
As Mary Kellett, she contested
Nelson and Colne
in
1955
,
South West Norfolk
twice in
1959
(including
a by-election
), and
Buckingham
in
1964
and
1966
. She was
MP
for Lancaster from
1970
until her retirement in 1997. She also served as a
Member of the European Parliament
in the British delegation from 1975, and was then elected for
Cumbria
in 1979. She remained an MEP until 1984, when she stepped down in order to concentrate on her seat in the British Parliament.
[1]
Capital Gay
arson attack
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In 1987, the London paper
Capital Gay
'
s offices were targeted in an
arson
attack.
Tony Banks MP
said in the
House of Commons
, "On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I heard the honorable Member for Lancaster [Kellett-Bowman] say that it was quite right that Capital Gay should have been fire?", at which point he was interrupted by a point of order.
[2]
Kellett-Bowman responded, "I am quite prepared to affirm that it is quite right that there should be an intolerance of evil."
[2]
[3]
Personal life
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She had four children with her first husband, Charles Norman Kellett, but was widowed in December 1959; her husband died in a car accident in which she suffered head injuries and memory loss.
[1]
She married
Edward Bowman
in June 1971; the couple served alongside each other on Camden Borough Council (as Aldermen) and as Members of the
European Parliament
; both took the shared surname of 'Kellett-Bowman'.
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References
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Sources
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- Times Guide to the House of Commons
, Times Newspapers Ltd, 1955, 1966, 1992 and 1997 editions.
- Who's Who
, 2007 edition
- Wikipedia article
Capital Gay
External links
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