Alice Boase
Alice Boase | |
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| Nominated Member of the Legislative Council | |
| In office 1954–1956 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1910 Dublin, United Kingdom |
Alice Mary Boase MBE (born 1910) was a Ugandan politician. She and Barbara Saben were appointed to the Legislative Council in 1954, becoming its first female members.
Biography
Boase was born in 1910 in Dublin.[1] When she was two her parents moved to Nyasaland, after her father Charles had been appointed as a magistrate. The family moved to Uganda when Charles was appointed Chief Justice in 1921. In 1929 Alice married the physician Arthur Boase (1901–1986);[2] the couple went on to have ten children.[3]
She served as president of the Uganda Council of Women from 1953 to 1955,[4] and sat on the board of the Uganda Club.[5] Boase and her husband both became members of Kampala municipal council.[5] In 1954 Boase and Barbara Saben were appointed to the Legislative Council, becoming its first female members.[4] She left Uganda in 1956 when Arthur was began working at Saint John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem.[3] In 1969 they retired to Sussex in the United Kingdom.[2]
Her brother John had been appointed Chief Justice of Uganda in 1952, and became Speaker of the Legislative Council in 1958. In 2004 she published a memoir, When The Sun Never Set - A Family's Life In The British Empire.[3]
References
- ^ BOASE, Alice Mary, Mrs Europeans in East Africa
- ^ a b Boase, Arthur Joseph (1901 - 1986) Royal College of Surgeons
- ^ a b c When The Sun Never Set - A Family's Life In The British Empire The British Empire
- ^ a b Aili Mari Tripp (2012) Women and Politics in Uganda p39
- ^ a b 1911-1950 Kampala Club