Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham
Patricia Lesley Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham PC, DL (née Wells; 24 May 1941 − 13 October 2018) was a Labour member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom. She was born in Cambridge.
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Hollis was active in the civil rights movement, picketing segregated restaurants and helping hold voter registration drives in Mississippi.[1][2]
She was a lecturer in modern history, reader and Dean at the University of East Anglia in Norwich from 1967 until 1990. She served as a National Commissioner for English Heritage from 1988 until 1991.
Hollis was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions (previously Department of Social Security) from 5 May 1997 to the 2005.
Hollis died in October 2018, aged 77, following a long illness.[3][4]
References
change- ↑ "Baroness Patricia Hollis - Harkness Fellows". Harkness Fellows. 2018-05-25. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
- ↑ PoliticsHome.com (2013-01-24). "Anything but retiring". PoliticsHome.com. Archived from the original on 2018-10-15. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
- ↑ Cope, Lauren. "'Champion of Norwich' and Labour peer dies aged 77". Eastern Daily Press. Archived from the original on 2018-10-15. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
- ↑ Bloom, Dan (2018-10-15). "Labour peer Baroness Hollis dies aged 77 after victory over Tax Credit cuts". mirror. Retrieved 2018-10-15.