Annie Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe

Annie Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe (16 July 1915 – 6 November 1997) was a British Labour Party politician and life peer.

She was born as Annie Patricia Parry at Birkenhead. In 1934, she married Alexander Francis Rawdon Smith. She studied at Girton College, Cambridge. Her first marriage having been dissolved, in 1943 she married Richard Llewelyn Davies, later Lord Llewelyn-Davies. She was created a life peer as Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, of Hastoe in the County of Hertfordshire on 29 August 1967.

She served as a Government whip in the House of Lords 1969–70 and as Opposition Deputy Chief Whip from 1972 to 73, when she became Opposition Chief Whip. On the return of the Labour Party to government in 1974 she became Government Chief Whip, and thus Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms. In 1975, she became a Privy Counsellor. From 1979 to 82 she was once again Opposition Chief Whip. From 1982 to 87, she was Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords, an office carrying with it the role of Chairman of the European Communities Committee.

Death

She died on 6 November 1997, aged 82, in Colchester, at the home of Lord Alport, who had nursed her during the final years of her life.

Sources

• Heraldic Media Ltd.

Links

• The Peerage website
• Oxford DNB
• Excerpt from Hansard re Lady Llewelyn-Davies