Shireen Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Brompton explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Baroness Ritchie of Brompton
Office:Member of the House of Lords
1Blankname:Nominator
1Namedata:David Cameron
Term Start:25 June 2010
Term End:24 April 2012
Party:Conservative
Birth Name:Shireen Olive Folkard
Birth Date:22 June 1945
Death Date:24 April 2012 (aged 66)
Alma Mater:St Mary's Gate School, Southbourne, Dorset
Spouse:John Williams
John Vivian Ritchie
Children:1

Shireen Olive Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Brompton (Folkard; 22 June 1945 – 24 April 2012) was a Conservative Councillor for the Brompton Ward, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and advocate for women in the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom. She was a Conservative working peer in the House of Lords[1] [2] and President of the National Children's Bureau.[3]

Politics

Shireen Ritchie was a Kensington and Chelsea Councillor from 1998 representing the Brompton ward on the council. In 2008, she provided testimony as part of the Home Affairs Committee hearings on Trade in Human Beings.[4] She was involved in efforts of the Conservative Party to raise awareness among constituents about the importance of the issue of diversity to the party,[5] including the party's Women2Win efforts in 2005,[6] and Priority List (A-List) candidates, for which she received scorn from other Conservative party members.[7] She held a seat as the Chair of the party's Candidates Committee and was named as a 'Champion' for the Conservative Women's Organisation.[8]

While she was chair of LGA's Family and Children's Services in 2010, the department underwent an effort to reduce paperwork to "ease the pressure on social workers and increase the quality of care offered to children."[9] She was a member of the Family Justice Review Panel.

On 25 June 2010, Ritchie was created a life peer as Baroness Ritchie of Brompton, of Brompton, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and she was introduced in the House of Lords on 29 June 2010.[10]

Personal life

Born Shireen Olive Folkard, she spent her early life in Yemen where her father was a British diplomat. After attending St Mary's Gate School, Southbourne, Dorset, she worked as a fashion model until her marriage.[11]

She had a son by her first marriage[12] to John Williams. Her second marriage was to the advertising executive John Vivian Ritchie, becoming stepmother to his children Tabitha Ritchie and Guy Ritchie.[13] [14]

Ritchie died on 24 April 2012, aged 66, having been suffering from cancer.[15]

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. News: Dissolution honours: the full list of new peers . https://web.archive.org/web/20100601061431/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/honours-list/7779671/Dissolution-honours-the-full-list-of-new-peers.html. dead. 1 June 2010. 2 July 2010 . The Telegraph. 29 May 2010. Shireen Ritchie, councillor in Kensington & Chelsea and step-mother of Guy Ritchie, the film director..
  2. Web site: Councillor Ritchie dies . Councillor Ritchie dies – Kensington & Chelsea Chronicle . Kensington.londoninformer.co.uk . 25 April 2012.
  3. Web site: NCB comment on the death of president Baroness Shireen Ritchie . . 26 April 2012 . 18 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121126043352/http://www.ncb.org.uk/news/ncb-comment-on-the-death-of-president-baroness-shireen-ritchie . 26 November 2012.
  4. Book: The Trade in Human Beings: Oral and written evidence . Home Affairs Committee, House of Commons, UK Parliament . Ev 82 . Great Britain . 2009 . 978-0-215-53021-9.
  5. Book: Speaker's Conference (on Parliamentary Representation): session 2009–10, Volume III . Parliament: House of Commons . Ev 141 . Great Britain . 2010 . 978-0-215-54389-9 .
  6. Book: Childs, Sarah . Women and British party politics: descriptive, substantive and symbolic . . 52 . London . 2007 . 978-0-415-36682-3 .
  7. Book: Bale, Tim . The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron . 314 . Polity . Cambridge . 2010 . 978-0-7456-4857-6 .
  8. Book: Childs, Sarah . Women and British party politics: descriptive, substantive and symbolic . Routledge . 35 . London . 2007 . 978-0-415-36682-3 .
  9. News: Overhaul of child protection will put social workers back on frontline . Rachel . Williams . The Guardian . 10 June 2010 . 2 July 2010 . London.
  10. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/minutes/100630/ldordpap.htm#_Toc266272965 House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Tuesday 29 June 2010
  11. News: Obituaries; Baroness Ritchie of Brompton. The Daily Telegraph. 26 April 2012.
  12. Web site: Ritchie of Brompton, Baroness, (Shireen Olive Ritchie) (22 June 1945–24 April 2012) . . . 23 October 2023 . en . 1 December 2016.
  13. Book: Taraborrelli, J. Randy . Madonna: An Intimate Biography . Simon & Schuster . New York . 2002 . 978-0-7567-7943-6.
  14. Book: Avery, Laura . Newsmakers: 2001 Cumulation . Gale Research . Detroit, MI . 398 . 2002 . 978-0-7876-5348-4 .
  15. News: Baroness Ritchie of Brompton . 23 October 2023 . The Times . 27 April 2012 . en.

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