Patricia Ford (politician)

Patricia Ford, Lady Fisher
Member of Parliament
for North Down
In office
15 April 1953 – 6 May 1955
Prime MinisterWinston Churchill
Preceded byWalter Smiles
Succeeded byGeorge Currie
Personal details
Born
Patricia Smiles

(1921-04-05)5 April 1921
Donaghadee, County Down, Ulster, Ireland
Died23 May 1995(1995-05-23) (aged 74)
Chilton, Buckinghamshire, England
NationalityBritish
Political partyUlster Unionist Party
Spouse(s)
(m. 1941; div. 1956)
; 2 daughters
(m. 1956)
Children2

Patricia Ford, Lady Fisher (née Smiles; 5 April 1921 – 23 May 1995), was briefly an Ulster Unionist Party politician in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. She was the first woman Member of Parliament from Northern Ireland, and the second woman to be returned to a seat in Westminster from a constituency on the island of Ireland (the first to take her seat).[1]

  1. ^ O'Riordan, Turlough (2009). "Fisher, Patricia". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.