Joan Lestor
Chair of the Labour Party | |
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In office 7 October 1977 – 6 October 1978 | |
Leader | James Callaghan |
Preceded by | John Chalmers |
Succeeded by | Frank Allaun |
Member of Parliament for Eccles | |
In office 11 June 1987 – 8 April 1997 | |
Preceded by | Lewis Carter-Jones |
Succeeded by | Ian Stewart |
Member of Parliament for Eton and Slough | |
In office 31 March 1966 – 13 May 1983 | |
Preceded by | Anthony Meyer |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | 13 November 1931[1] Vancouver, British Columbia[1] |
Died | 27 March 1998 (aged 66)[1] |
Political party | Labour |
Other political affiliations | Socialist Party |
Alma mater | University of London |
Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles (13 November 1931 – 27 March 1998) was a British Labour politician. She was MP for Eton and Slough between 1966 and 1983, and MP for Eccles from 1987 to 1997.
Early life
Lestor was educated at Blaenavon Secondary School, Monmouth; William Morris High School, Walthamstow and the University of London. She became a nursery school teacher and a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, but resigned from the latter over the Turner Controversy. She became a councillor in 1958 on the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth and later the London Borough of Wandsworth. She served on London County Council, losing in Lewisham West at the 1961 election, but winning a by-election to represent Wandsworth Central from 1962 until 1964.[1]
Parliamentary career
Lestor contested Lewisham West in 1964 and was elected Member of Parliament for Eton and Slough in 1966. [1]
She was briefly a junior minister from 1969 to 1970 with responsibility for nursery education. In March 1974 she became the
Lestor was one of the founding editors of anti-fascist monthly, Searchlight, though that magazine had only a tenuous connection to the current publication.
After boundary changes in 1983, Lestor contested the new constituency of
She was returned for
House of Lords
On 4 June 1997, Lestor was created a
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Dalyell, Tam (29 March 1998). "Obituary: Baroness Lestor of Eccles". The Independent. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- ^ "Home before midnight. Thatcher strolls back to Number 10". Glasgow Herald. 10 June 1983. Retrieved 25 February 2017 – via Google News.
- ^ Reid, Harry (10 June 1983). "Benn ousted after 33 years". Glasgow Herald. Retrieved 25 February 2017 – via Google News.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ^ Lyall, Sarah (1 April 1998). "Joan Lestor, 66, a Crusader In Britain for Children's Rights". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- ^ "No. 54793". The London Gazette. 13 June 1997. p. 6907.