Elaine Kellett-Bowman

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Dame Mary Elaine Kellett-Bowman, DBE (born 8 July 1924) is a British Conservative politician.

Born Mary Elaine Kay, she was educated at The Mount School, York, St Anne's College, Oxford and Barnett House, Oxford, and became a barrister, called to the bar by Middle Temple in 1964. She served as a councillor on Denbigh Borough Council 1952-1955 and the London Borough of Camden 1968-1974. She was also a governor of Culford School 1963–2003.

As Mary Kellett, she contested Nelson and Colne (1955), South West Norfolk twice in 1959, and Buckingham (1964, 1966). She was MP for Lancaster from 1970 until her retirement in 1997. She also served as MEP for Cumbria and Lancashire North from 1975 until losing in 1984.

She had four children with her first husband (Kellett) but was widowed; she remarried Edward Bowman, and the two served alongside each other on Camden Borough Council and as Members of the European Parliament; both took the shared surname of Kellett-Bowman.

[edit] References

• Times Guide to the House of Commons, Times Newspapers Limited, 1955, 1966, 1992 and 1997 editions.
• Who's Who, 2007 edition.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Stanley Henig	Member of Parliament for Lancaster 1970–1997	Succeeded by (constituency abolished) see Lancaster and Wyre