Pat Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe

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PC
Llewellyn-Davies in 1967
Chief Whip of the House of Lords
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
In office
4 March 1974 – 4 May 1979
Prime Minister
Preceded by
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
29 August 1967 – 6 November 1997
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Annie Patricia Parry

(1915-07-16)16 July 1915
Birkenhead, England
Died6 November 1997(1997-11-06) (aged 82)
Colchester, England
Political partyLabour
Spouses
Alexander Francis Rawdon Smith
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(m. 1934, divorced)​
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(m. 1943; died 1981)​
Children3
Alma materGirton College, Cambridge

Annie Patricia Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe,

Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms
(Government Chief Whip).

Early and personal life

Llewelyn-Davies was born in Birkenhead in 1915 to Charles Percy Parry and Sarah Gertrude Parry (née Hamilton). She studied at Wallasey High School, Birkenhead High School, Liverpool College, Huyton and Girton College, Cambridge.[1][2]

In 1934 she married Alexander Francis Rawdon Smith, a research physiologist; they had no children. After this marriage was dissolved, in 1943 she married Richard Llewelyn Davies, and their surname was hyphenated when Richard was elevated to the peerage as Lord Llewelyn-Davies. They had three daughters.[1]

Political career

Llewelyn-Davies entered the civil service in 1940 and served in the

Privy Counsellor. From 1979 to 1982 she was once again Opposition Chief Whip. From 1982 to 1987, she was Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords,[2] an office carrying with it the role of Chairman of the European Communities Committee.[4]

Death

She died on 6 November 1997, aged 82, in

Lord Alport, who nursed her during the final years of her life. They sought solace in each other following the death of their partners, which developed into a love affair. They kept their relationship secret because she feared it would damage him politically, and she declined to marry him.[1] Shortly after her death Alport met academic Mark Garnett, who was working for Sir Edward Heath on his memoirs, and he asked him to write his life story. Speaking to The Guardian, Garnett said of the meeting: "He was wearing a black tie and he mentioned the recent death of a 'close friend'. ... It was only later that I realised that the light had gone out in his life."[5]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68457. Retrieved 20 October 2012. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ a b c d "Llewelyn-Davies Of Hastoe, Baroness". Who's Who. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  3. ^ "No. 44396". The London Gazette. 29 August 1967. p. 9499.
  4. ISBN 9780108472411
    .
  5. ^ Langdon, Julia (8 March 1999). "Love across the Woolsack". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 October 2012.

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Political offices
Preceded by Chief Whip of the House of Lords
1974–1979 		Succeeded by
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
1974–1979


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