Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alice Martha Bacon, Baroness Bacon (10 September 1909 – 24 March 1993) was a British Labour Party politician.

At the 1945 general election, she was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds North East. When constituency boundaries were revised for the 1950 general election, she transferred to the Leeds South East constituency, and served as that constituency's MP until she retired at the 1970 general election.

Bacon was a member of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee from 1941 until 1970, and served as the party's chair from 1950 to 1951.

In Parliament, she was a Minister of State at the Home Office from 1964 to 1967, serving under Frank Soskice and Roy Jenkins in a period when a series of liberalising reforms were introduced.

After her retirement from the House of Commons, she was created Baroness Bacon, of the City of Leeds and of Normanton in the West Riding of the County of York on 14 October 1970.

[edit] References

• Alice Bacon at the Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Craik-Henderson	Member of Parliament for Leeds North East 1945–1950	Succeeded by Osbert Peake
Preceded by Denis Healey	Member of Parliament for Leeds South East 1950–1970	Succeeded by Stanley Cohen