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Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge

Index Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge

Janet Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge, PC (3 November 1904 – 16 November 1988), known as Jennie Lee, was a Scottish politician. [1]

70 relations: Adam Smith, Adam Smith College, Alexander Sprot, Aneurin Bevan, Anthony Crosland, Arts Council of Great Britain, Beath High School, Bertrand Russell, Bristol Central (UK Parliament constituency), Bristol Central by-election, 1943, Cannock (UK Parliament constituency), Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, Certified teacher, City of Westminster, Cowdenbeath, Daily Mirror, David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, Department for Education and Skills (United Kingdom), Edinburgh University Women's Union, Eirene White, Baroness White, Express & Star, Fife, Francisco Franco, Frank Wise (British politician), Harold Wilson, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Independent Labour Party, James Maxton, John Boyd (trade unionist), Keir Hardie, Kirkcaldy, Labour Party (UK), Lochgelly, Master of Arts (Scotland), Member of parliament, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Minister of State, Ministry of Works (United Kingdom), National Executive Committee, National Government (United Kingdom), North Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency), North Lanarkshire by-election, 1929, Nuclear strategy, Open University, Parliamentary secretary, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Patrick Cormack, Popular Front (Spain), Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Ramsay MacDonald, ..., Richard Crossman, Robert Smillie, Scotland on Sunday, Southbank Centre, Spanish Civil War, Staffordshire, The Right Honourable, Unionist Party (Scotland), United Kingdom general election, 1929, United Kingdom general election, 1931, United Kingdom general election, 1935, United Kingdom general election, 1945, United Kingdom general election, 1970, University of Edinburgh, Violet Bathurst, Lady Apsley, Wednesfield, White paper, William Adamson (Cannock MP), William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany, Winston Churchill. Expand index (20 more) »

Adam Smith

Adam Smith (16 June 1723 NS (5 June 1723 OS) – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment era.

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Adam Smith College

Adam Smith College was a Scottish further and higher education college located over various campuses across the county of Fife.

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Alexander Sprot

Colonel Sir Alexander Sprot, 1st Baronet, (24 April 1853 – 8 February 1929) was a British soldier and Scottish Unionist Party politician.

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Aneurin Bevan

Aneurin Bevan (15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960), often known as Nye Bevan, was a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Minister for Health in the post-war Attlee ministry from 1945-51.

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Anthony Crosland

Charles Anthony Raven Crosland (29 August 1918 – 19 February 1977), sometimes known as Tony Crosland or C. A. R. Crosland, was a British Labour Party politician and author.

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Arts Council of Great Britain

The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain.

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Beath High School

Beath High School is a non-denominational state secondary school in Cowdenbeath, Fife.

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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.

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Bristol Central (UK Parliament constituency)

Bristol Central was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Bristol.

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Bristol Central by-election, 1943

The Bristol Central by-election, 1943 was a by-election held on 18 February 1943 for the British House of Commons constituency of Bristol Central in the city of Bristol.

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Cannock (UK Parliament constituency)

Cannock was a parliamentary constituency in Staffordshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.

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Carnegie United Kingdom Trust

The Carnegie United Kingdom Trust is an independent, endowed charitable trust based in Scotland, and operating throughout Great Britain and Ireland.

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Certified teacher

A certified teacher is a teacher who has earned credentials from an authoritative source, such as the government, a higher education institution or a private source.

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City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is an Inner London borough which also holds city status.

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Cowdenbeath

Cowdenbeath (Coudenbeith) is a town and burgh in west Fife, Scotland.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper founded in 1903.

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David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles

David McAdam Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles (18 September 1904 – 24 February 1999) was an English Conservative politician.

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Department for Education and Skills (United Kingdom)

The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) was a United Kingdom government department between 2001 and 2007, responsible for the education system (including higher education and adult learning) as well as children's services in England.

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Edinburgh University Women's Union

Edinburgh University Women's Union was a students' union for women at the University of Edinburgh.

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Eirene White, Baroness White

Eirene Lloyd White, Baroness White (née Jones; 7 November 1909 – 23 December 1999) was a British Labour politician and journalist.

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Express & Star

The Express & Star is a regional evening newspaper in Britain.

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Fife

Fife (Fìobha) is a council area and historic county of Scotland.

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Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator from 1939, after the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War, until his death in 1975.

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Frank Wise (British politician)

Edward Frank Wise CB (3 July 1885 – 5 November 1933) was a British economist, civil servant and politician.

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Harold Wilson

James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Independent Labour Party

The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893, when the Liberals appeared reluctant to endorse working-class candidates, representing the interests of the majority.

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James Maxton

James Maxton (22 June 1885 – 23 July 1946) was a Scottish left-wing politician, and leader of the far-left faction of the Independent Labour Party.

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John Boyd (trade unionist)

Sir John McFarlane Boyd (8 October 1917 – 30 April 1989) was a Scottish trade unionist.

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Keir Hardie

James Keir Hardie (15 August 185626 September 1915) was a Scottish socialist, politician, and trade unionist.

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Kirkcaldy

Kirkcaldy (Cair Chaladain) is a town and former royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Lochgelly

Lochgelly (Gaelic: Loch Gheallaidh) is a town in Fife, Scotland.

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Master of Arts (Scotland)

The degree of Master of Arts in Scotland typically refers to an undergraduate degree (either a three-year general degree or four-year Honours degree) in humanities or social sciences awarded by one of the ancient universities of Scotland (the University of St Andrews, the University of Glasgow, the University of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh) plus the University of Dundee (as a result of its history as a constituent college of the University of St Andrews) and Heriot-Watt University (at honours level only).

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries

In the United Kingdom government, the Minister for the Arts is a ministerial post, usually a low to middle-ranking minister to the much senior Secretary of State, who runs the entire department and is ultimately responsible for the department's brief.

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Minister of State

Minister of State is a title borne by politicians or officials in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system.

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Ministry of Works (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Works was a department of the UK Government formed in 1943, during World War II, to organise the requisitioning of property for wartime use.

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National Executive Committee

The National Executive Committee (NEC) is the governing body of the UK Labour Party, setting the overall strategic direction of the party and policy development.

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National Government (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, National Government is an abstract concept of a coalition of some or all major political parties.

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North Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North (or Northern) Lanarkshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1868 to 1885 and from 1918 to 1983.

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North Lanarkshire by-election, 1929

The Lanarkshire North by-election, 1929 was a parliamentary by-election held in the United Kingdom on 21 March 1929 for the House of Commons constituency of North Lanarkshire in Scotland.

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Nuclear strategy

Nuclear strategy involves the development of doctrines and strategies for the production and use of nuclear weapons.

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Open University

The Open University (OU) is a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education.

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Parliamentary secretary

A parliamentary secretary is a member of a Parliament in the Westminster system who assists a more senior minister with his or her duties.

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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

A Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (also called a Parliamentary Secretary, especially in government departments not headed by a Secretary of State) is the lowest of three tiers of government minister in the government of the United Kingdom, immediately junior to a Minister of State, which is itself junior to a Secretary of State.

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Patrick Cormack

Patrick Thomas Cormack, Baron Cormack, DL, FSA (born 18 May 1939) is a British politician, historian, journalist and author.

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Popular Front (Spain)

The Popular Front (Frente Popular) in Spain's Second Republic was an electoral coalition and pact signed in January 1936 by various left-wing political organizations, instigated by Manuel Azaña for the purpose of contesting that year's election.

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Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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Ramsay MacDonald

James Ramsay MacDonald, (né James McDonald Ramsay; 12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British statesman who was the first Labour Party politician to become Prime Minister, leading minority Labour governments in 1924 and in 1929–31.

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Richard Crossman

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman (15 December 1907 – 5 April 1974), sometimes known as Dick Crossman, was a British Labour Party Member of Parliament, as well as a key figure among the party's Zionists and anti-communists.

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Robert Smillie

Robert Smillie (17 March 1857 – 16 February 1940) was a trade unionist and Labour Party politician in Great Britain, especially Scotland.

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Scotland on Sunday

Scotland on Sunday is a Scottish Sunday newspaper, published in Edinburgh by The Scotsman Publications Ltd and consequently assuming the role of Sunday sister to its daily stablemate The Scotsman.

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Southbank Centre

Southbank Centre is a complex of artistic venues in London, England, on the South Bank of the River Thames (between Hungerford Bridge and Waterloo Bridge).

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Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española),Also known as The Crusade (La Cruzada) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War (Cuarta Guerra Carlista) among Carlists, and The Rebellion (La Rebelión) or Uprising (Sublevación) among Republicans.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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The Right Honourable

The Right Honourable (The Rt Hon. or Rt Hon.) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and to certain collective bodies in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, India, some other Commonwealth realms, the Anglophone Caribbean, Mauritius, and occasionally elsewhere.

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Unionist Party (Scotland)

The Unionist Party was the main centre-right political party in Scotland between 1912 and 1965.

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United Kingdom general election, 1929

The 1929 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 30 May 1929, and resulted in a hung parliament.

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United Kingdom general election, 1931

The 1931 United Kingdom general election was held on Tuesday 27 October 1931 and saw a landslide election victory for the National Government which had been formed two months previously after the collapse of the second Labour government.

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United Kingdom general election, 1935

The 1935 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 14 November 1935 and resulted in a large, albeit reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party.

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United Kingdom general election, 1945

The 1945 United Kingdom general election was held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, because of local wakes weeks.

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United Kingdom general election, 1970

The 1970 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 18 June 1970.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.

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Violet Bathurst, Lady Apsley

Violet Emily Mildred Bathurst, Lady Apsley, CBE (née Meeking; 29 April 1895 – 19 January 1966) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Wednesfield

Wednesfield is a historic village and residential area within the city of Wolverhampton, West Midlands.

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White paper

A white paper is an authoritative report or guide that informs readers concisely about a complex issue and presents the issuing body's philosophy on the matter.

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William Adamson (Cannock MP)

William Murdoch Adamson (12 April 1881 – 25 October 1945) was a British Labour politician, and the son of his namesake, the Labour MP and Leader of the Labour Party, William Adamson.

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William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany

William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany, MC PC (5 March 1905 – 6 August 1985) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Lee,_Baroness_Lee_of_Asheridge

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