Emily Blatch, Baroness Blatch
Template:Short description Template:DMCA Template:DMCA
Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.
Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.The Baroness Blatch | |
|---|---|
| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found. Blatch in 2004 | |
| Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content. | |
| Minister of State for Immigration | |
| In office Template:En dash range | |
| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Charles Wardle |
| Succeeded by | Mike O'Brien |
| Minister of State for Education | |
| In office Template:En dash range | |
| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Tim Eggar |
| Succeeded by | Eric Forth |
| Minister of State for Environment[a] | |
| In office Template:En dash range | |
| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | The Lord Strathclyde |
| Succeeded by | David Maclean |
| Baroness-in-waiting Government whip | |
| In office Template:En dash range | |
| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Cavendish of Furness |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage Template:En dash range | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Script error: No such module "person date". |
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". |
| Party | Conservative |
| Prenton High School for Girls Huntingdonshire Regional College | |
Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".
Emily May Blatch, Baroness Blatch, CBE, PC, FRSA (née Triggs; 24 July 1937 – 31 May 2005) was a British Conservative politician.
Born in Birkenhead, the daughter of Stephen and Sarah Triggs, she was educated at Prenton High School for Girls and at Huntingdonshire Regional College. At the age of 18, she joined the Women's Royal Air Force and served as an air traffic control assistant between 1955 and 1959.
Blatch entered politics in 1976 at the age of 39, as an elected councillor to Cambridgeshire County Council. Within a year she had been elected leader of the Conservative group and therefore leader of the council as the party enjoyed a majority at the time. She served as leader until 1989, during which time she helped pioneer reforming policies in education such as direct funding for schools from central government, a predecessor policy to the Academy (English school) programme introduced by the Labour government of 1997-2010 and later extended by the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition Government.
Blatch was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1983 Birthday Honours.[1] She was created a life peeress as Baroness Blatch, of Hinchingbrooke in the County of Cambridgeshire on 4 July 1987.[2]
From 1991 to 1994, she was Minister of State for Education and Immigration minister from 1994 to 1997. In 1997 she was given an honorary doctorate of Law from the University of Teesside.
Blatch was Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords from 2001 until her death.
Family
On 7 September 1963, she married John Richard Blatch AFC (a RAF test pilot) and they had four children: David (1965–1979), Hon. James Richard (b. 1967) and twins, Hon. Andrew Edward (b. 1968) and Hon. Elizabeth Anne (b. 1968). John Blatch died in 2024.[3]
Death
Lady Blatch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on 23 December 2003 and died in London on 31 May 2005, aged 67.[4]
Notes
Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.
- ^ As Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State from 7 September 1990 to 21 May 1991.
References
Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.[Script error: No such module "London Gazette util". "No. 49375"]. The London Gazette (Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".). 11 June 1983. p. Script error: No such module "London Gazette util"..
{{cite magazine}}: Check|url=value (help); More than one of|pages=and|page=specified (help)Script error: No such module "London Gazette util". - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.[Script error: No such module "London Gazette util". "No. 50887"]. The London Gazette (Script error: No such module "London Gazette util".). 10 April 1987. p. Script error: No such module "London Gazette util"..
{{cite magazine}}: Check|url=value (help); More than one of|pages=and|page=specified (help)Script error: No such module "London Gazette util". - ^ Script error: No such module "template wrapper".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Lady Blatch". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 20 July 2020.
