Barbara Saben
{{short description|Ugandan politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image =
| office1 = Nominated Member of the Legislative Council
| term1 = 1954–1961
| office2 = Mayor of Kampala
| term2 = 1961–1962
| predecessor2 = S. W. Kulubya
| successor2 = P.I. Patel
| birth_date = 1912
| birth_place = India
| death_date = {{nowrap|16 September 2014 (aged 102)}}
| death_place = United Kingdom
}}
Dorothy Barbara Saben {{post-nominals|CBE}} (1912 – 16 September 2014) was a Ugandan politician. She and Alice Boase were appointed to the Legislative Council in 1954, becoming its first female members. Saben later served as the first female mayor of Kampala.
Biography
Saben was born in India in 1912. After receiving a private education, she studied at St James College in London form 1931 to 1932. She moved to Uganda in 1940 with her businessman husband.Mijail C. Mendoza Escalante & Joy C. Kwesiga (2002) The Women's Movement in Uganda: History, Challenges, and Prospects, p206 She was a founder member of the Uganda Council of Women in 1946. In the 1951 New Year Honours she was awarded an MBE for her public service in Uganda. She was also a founder member of the National Council of Social Service, serving as its president.
In 1954 Saben and Alice Boase were appointed to the Legislative Council, becoming its first female members.Aili Mari Tripp (2012) [https://books.google.com/books?id=C4f--wYMhhkC&pg=PA39 Women and Politics in Uganda] p39 Following the 1958 elections she became deputy chair of the Representative Members' Organisation, a grouping of the nominated members.David Ernest Apter (1997) [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ti2fDg1ZG6QC&pg=PA409 The Political Kingdom in Uganda: A Study of Bureaucratic Nationalism] p409 She remained on the Council until 1961.Aili Mari Tripp (2001) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3097553 Women's Mobilization in Uganda: Nonracial Ideologies in European-African-Asian Encounters, 1945-1962] The International Journal of African Historical Studies, volume 34, number 3, pp543–564 Saben had also become a member of Kampala City Council when it was established.Official Report, Uganda. National Assembly, 1962, p192 After serving as deputy mayor from 1959 to 1960, she became the first female mayor of the city in 1961, serving until 1962. She was awarded a CBE in the 1963 New Year Honours; later in the same year she resigned from the City Council.Who's who in East Africa, 1965, p103
She died in the United Kingdom in September 2014.[http://www.familynotices24.co.uk/national/view/3566702/dorothy-barbara-saben-cbe Dorothy Barbara Saben C.B.E.] Eastern Daily Press, 23 September 2014
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Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Women members of the Parliament of Uganda
Category:Members of the Parliament of Uganda