Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Baroness Miller of Hendon | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MBE |
Office2: | Baroness-in-Waiting Government Whip |
Primeminister2: | John Major |
Term Start2: | 21 July 1994 |
Term End2: | 2 May 1997 |
Predecessor2: | The Lord Annaly |
Successor3: | The Baroness Gould of Potternewton |
Office4: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
Term Start4: | 14 October 1993 |
Term End4: | 21 June 2014 Life Peerage |
Birth Date: | 13 June 1933 |
Death Date: | 21 June 2014 (aged 81) |
Party: | Conservative |
Alma Mater: | London School of Economics |
Doreen Miller, Baroness Miller of Hendon, MBE (née Feldman; 13 June 1933 – 21 June 2014) was a British politician (Conservative Party).[1]
Miller attained an LL.B. in 1957 at the London School of Economics.[2]
Miller was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1990 New Year Honours for services to women's rights.
She served as a Government Whip from 1994 to 1997 and as Opposition Whip from 1997 to 1999. From 1995 to 1997 she served as Government Spokesperson for health and from 1996 to 1997 for Education and Employment. She was created a life peer on 14 October 1993 as Baroness Miller of Hendon, of Gore in the London Borough of Barnet.
Baroness Miller was the Chairman of the charity Attend[3] (then National Association of Hospital and Community Friends) from 1998 to 2003. When she retired in 2003, she was honored as a vice president and held that position until she died in 2014.
From 2002 she was Vice-chair of the Israel Group. She also sat on the House of Lords Information Committee and an EU Sub-Committee[4]
Escutcheon: | Vert on a fess between in chief a windmill of four sails in the form of stylised petals Or and in base the tree sorbus torminals erased three sparrows close Proper. |
Supporters: | Dexter a female figure habited in blouse and skirt temp 1905 wearing from right shoulder to left hip a sash of the suffragette movement holding in the dexter hand a pole thereon a placard with the words "Votes For Women" all Proper; sinister a female figure also habited in a day dress rose decorated with silver grey hatted hand against dexter shoulder a scroll of the law Proper and by the other a torch azure flamed Gules. |
Motto: | Quare Non? (Why Not?) [5] [6] |
Orders: | Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire |
Coronet: | That of a Baroness |