Marion Roe
Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox officeholder
Dame Marion Audrey Roe DBE (born 15 July 1936 in London) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, and former MP.
Early life and career
She went to the independent Bromley High School for Girls in Bickley, then the independent Croydon High School. She studied at the English School of Languages in Vevey in Switzerland.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>
Roe served on the Greater London Council, representing Ilford North.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
Parliamentary career
She unsuccessfully contested the Barking constituency at the 1979 general election, achieving a 14% swing. Roe became Member of Parliament for Broxbourne from 1983<ref name=":0" /> until 2005.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref> She was a junior environment minister in the 1980s and chaired select committees in the 1990s. A eurosceptic, she was on the council of the right-wing Conservative Way Forward group.
She stepped down at the 2005 general election.<ref name=":1" />
Later life
Following her retirement, Roe established the Dame Marion Roe Young Citizen of the Year award, part of the annual Broxbourne Youth Awards celebrating the achievements of young people from the borough of Broxbourne.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
She was interviewed in 2013 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project.<ref name="Life story interview with Marion Roe (1936-), former Conservative Member of Parliament">Template:Cite web</ref>
Personal life
She married James Kenneth Roe in 1958. They have a son and two daughters - one of whom, Philippa Roe, Baroness Couttie, was the Leader of Westminster City Council and was a member of the House of Lords as a Conservative from 2016 until her death in 2022.
References
External links
Template:S-start Template:S-par Template:S-new Template:S-ttl Template:S-aft Template:S-end
- 1936 births
- Living people
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Members of the Greater London Council
- Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- 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
- 20th-century British women politicians
- 21st-century British women politicians
- 20th-century English women
- 20th-century English people
- 21st-century English women
- 21st-century English politicians
- Women councillors in England