Pamela Kirkham, 16th Baroness Berners
Pamela Vivien Kirkham, 16th Baroness Berners (née Williams; 30 September 1929 – 23 January 2023) was a British hereditary peer who worked as a nurse in the National Health Service. She was a member of the House of Lords from 1995 to 1999.[1]
Family and career
Born in
JP. She was educated at Stonar School and Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, where she qualified as a State Registered Nurse in 1951, thereafter working in the National Health Service.[2]
In 1952 she married Captain Michael Kirkham, an officer in the Derbyshire Yeomanry. They had three children.
Peerage and succession
Upon her mother's death in 1992, the ancient Berners
barony by writ of summons fell into abeyance between Pamela and her younger sister, Rosemary, the wife of Kelvin Pollock FCA. As is customary in such uncontested cases, the House of Lords Committee of Privileges terminated the abeyance in favour of the elder daughter. Pamela succeeded her mother as Lady Berners in 1995. She joined the Conservative benches in the House of Lords, where she sat until 1999, speaking about health and nursing matters.[3]
Berners died from a stroke on 23 January 2023, at the age of 93.
See also
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References
- ^ "HEREDITARY PEERAGE ASSOCIATION". www.hereditarypeers.com. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Royal College of Nursing". The Royal College of Nursing. 12 January 2023. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Ms Pamela Kirkham (Hansard)". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Baroness Pamela Vivien Berners (née Williams)". The Times. 1 February 2023. Archived from the original on 27 February 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
- ^ www.holmescountyherald.com Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ www.visionofbritain.org.uk