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 1984, when she stepped down in order to concentrate on her seat in the British Parliament.
She had four children with her first husband (Charles Norman Kellett) but was widowed in December 1959; she remarried Edward Bowman in June 1971, 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.
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| Preceded by Stanley Henig |
Member of Parliament for Lancaster 1970–1997 |
Constituency abolished see Lancaster and Wyre |