Maria Fyfe
Maria Fyfe | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Glasgow Maryhill | |
| In office 11 June 1987 – 7 June 2001 | |
| Preceded by | James Craigen |
| Succeeded by | Ann McKechin |
| Majority | 64.9% (1997)[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Maria O'Neill 25 November 1938 |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse | James Joseph Fyfe (deceased) |
| Alma mater | Strathclyde |
Maria Fyfe (born 25 November 1938) is a politician in the United Kingdom and former Member of Parliament for Glasgow Maryhill.
Early life
Born Maria O'Neill, the daughter of James O’Neill and Margaret Lacey, she became a member of the Labour Party in 1960. She returned to education as a mature student, studying Economic History at the University of Strathclyde and graduating in 1975. She worked as a senior lecturer in the Trade Union Studies Unit at Glasgow Central College of Commerce from 1978 to 1987. In 1980, she was elected to Glasgow District Council, serving as Vice-Convener of the Finance Committee from then until 1984, when she became Convener of the Personnel Committee. She remained in this position until 1987, when she was elected to Parliament.
Parliamentary career
At the 1987 general election, Fyfe was returned to Parliament as Member for Glasgow Maryhill, a position she occupied until the 2001 general election. She served as Deputy Shadow Minister for Women from 1988 to 1991, Convener of the Scottish Group of Labour MPs from 1991 to 1992, and front bench spokesperson for Scotland from 1992 to 1995. She chaired concurrently the Labour Party Departmental Committee on International Development and the Labour Group in the UK Delegation to the Council of Europe, both from 1997 to 2001. At the 2001 General Election and was succeeded by Ann McKechin. Fyfe was awarded an honorary D.Univ. by the University of Glasgow in 2002.[2]
She was quoted as saying: "I am proudest of having been involved in the 50-50 campaign to ensure that the Scottish Parliament started life with an almost equal representation of women, up there with the Scandinavian countries".[3]
Personal life
The then Maria O'Neill married James Joseph Fyfe in 1964; the couple had two sons. Her husband is deceased.
References
- ‘FYFE, Maria’, Who's Who 2009, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008 accessed 28 April 2009
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Maria Fyfe
- Use dmy dates from November 2012
- 1938 births
- Living people
- Scottish Labour Party MPs
- Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Glasgow constituencies
- Councillors in Glasgow
- Scottish Labour Party councillors
- Scottish Labour Party (1976) politicians
- UK MPs 1987–92
- UK MPs 1992–97
- UK MPs 1997–2001
- Democratic socialists
- Alumni of the University of Strathclyde