Patricia Hornsby-Smith

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Dame Margaret Patricia Hornsby-Smith, later Baroness Hornsby-Smith PC (17 March 1914 – 3 July 1985) was a British Conservative Party politician.

At the 1950 general election, she was elected as Member of Parliament for Chislehurst, winning a majority of only 167 votes over the sitting Labour MP, George Wallace.

She was re-elected at the next four general elections, and was made a Princy Coubsellor in 1959. At the 1966 election, she lost her seat to Labour's Alistair Macdonald, by a majority of only 810. Four years later, at the 1970 election, she regained the seat with a majority of over 3,000.

Following boundary changes to the parliamentary constituencies, Hornsby-Smith stood in the new seat of Aldridge-Brownhills at the February 1974 general election, but lost to the Labour candidate Geoffrey Edge by just 366 votes. Hornsby-Smith was subsequently elevated to a life peerage in May that year as Baroness Hornsby-Smith, of Chislehurst in the County of Kent.

This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by George Wallace	Member of Parliament for Chislehurst 1950–1966	Succeeded by Alistair Macdonald
Preceded by Alistair Macdonald	Member of Parliament for Chislehurst 1970–February 1974	Succeeded by Roger Sims