Marion Roe
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Dame Marion Audrey Roe DBE (born on July 15, 1936, London) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Early life
She went to independent Bromley High School for Girls (since 1981 on Blackbrook Lane in Bickley), then the independent Croydon High School. She studied at the English School of Languages in Vevey in Switzerland.
[edit] Parliamentary career
She contested Barking in 1979.
She served on the Greater London Council and was Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Broxbourne from 1983 until 2005. A Eurosceptic, she is on the council of the right-wing Conservative Way Forward group. She was a junior environment minister in the 1980s and chaired select committees in the 1990s.
She stepped down at the 2005 general election.
[edit] Personal life
She married James Kenneth Roe in 1958. They have a son and two daughters.