Marion Roe

Dame
Dame Marion Roe
DBE
Dame Dame Marion Roe DBE
Member of Parliament; for Broxbourne
	In office; 10 June 1983 – 11 April 2005
Preceded by	Constituency Established
Succeeded by	Charles Walker
Personal details
Born	15 July 1936 (age 88); London
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	James Kenneth Roe

Dame Marion Audrey Roe, DBE (born 15 July 1936 in London) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom, and former MP.

Early life

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.^[1]

She unsuccessfully contested the Barking constituency at the 1979 general election. She served on the Greater London Council^[2] and was Member of Parliament for Broxbourne from 1983^[1] until 2005.^[3] A eurosceptic, she is on the council of the right-wing Conservative Way Forward group. She was a junior environment minister in the 1980s and chaired select committees in the 1990s. She stepped down at the 2005 general election.^[3]

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).^[4]

She was interviewed in 2013 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project.^[5]

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 now a member of the House of Lords as a Conservative.

^ ^a ^b "Vote 2001 | Candidates | Marion Roe". BBC News. 2001. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
^ "Who's Who". Who's Who 2019. 1 December 2018. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u33002. Retrieved 12 February 2019. {{cite web}}: |chapter= ignored (help)
^ ^a ^b "Dame Marion Roe DBE". The Guardian. 4 April 2005. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
^ "Trustees and staff". web site. NBFA. Archived from the original on 15 August 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
^ "Marion Roe interviewed by Eleanor O'Keefe". British Library Sound Archive. Retrieved 26 January 2018.

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