The Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe | |
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Chief Whip of the House of Lords Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms | |
In office 4 March 1974 – 4 May 1979 | |
Prime Minister | |
Preceded by | The Earl St Aldwyn |
Succeeded by | The Lord Denham |
Baroness-in-Waiting Government Whip | |
In office 13 March 1969 – 19 June 1970 | |
Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
Preceded by | Lady Serota |
Succeeded by | The Lord Mowbray |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 29 August 1967 – 6 November 1997 Life peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Annie Patricia Parry 16 July 1915 Birkenhead, England |
Died | 6 November 1997 Colchester, England | (aged 82)
Political party | Labour |
Spouses | Alexander Francis Rawdon Smith
(m. 1934, divorced) |
Children | 3 |
Alma mater | Girton College, Cambridge |
Annie Patricia Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, PC (née Parry; 16 July 1915 – 6 November 1997), was a British Labour Party politician and life peer. In 1973 she became the first woman to take charge of a whip's office in either of the houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and she served in the 1974 to 1979 Labour Government as Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms (Government Chief Whip).