Betty Harvie Anderson
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(Margaret) Betty Harvie Anderson, Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter, PC (12 August 1913 – 7 November 1979) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Harvie Anderson was educated at St Leonards School, St Andrews and became a lieutenant-colonel in the ATS after enlisting in 1939. In 1945 she was elected a councillor on Stirling County Council, serving until 1959 and chairing the Moderate Group from 1953. She was active in public life in Scotland.
Harvie Anderson stood for parliament for West Stirlingshire in 1950 and 1951 and in Sowerby in 1955. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Renfrewshire East from 1959 to 1979. Although Betty Boothroyd was the first woman Speaker of the House of Commons, Anderson was the first to sit in the Speaker's Chair as a Deputy Speaker from 1970 to 1973.
After her retirement as an MP in 1979, Harvie Anderson (though in ill health) was given a life peerage. She took an unusual title as Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter, of Dunipace in the District of Falkirk, made up of her husband's name and the estate she lived on. However, she died only a month later, not having been able to take her seat in the House of Lords.
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- Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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| Preceded by Guy Lloyd |
Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire 1959–1979 |
Succeeded by Allan Stewart |
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