Marion Roe

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|term_start = 9 June 1983

|term_end = 11 April 2005

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|successor = Charles Walker

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Dame Marion Audrey Roe DBE (born 15 July 1936 in London) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, and former MP.

Early life and career

She went to the independent Bromley High School for Girls in Bickley, then the independent Croydon High School. She studied at the English School of Languages in Vevey in Switzerland.{{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/candidates/candidates/1/10306.stm|title=Vote 2001 {{!}} Candidates {{!}} Marion Roe|date=2001|website=BBC News|access-date=12 February 2019}}

Roe served on the Greater London Council, representing Ilford North.{{Cite encyclopedia |date=1 December 2018 |website=Who's Who |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u33002 |entry=Roe, Dame Marion (Audrey)|title=Roe, Dame Marion (Audrey), (Born 15 July 1936) }}

Parliamentary career

She unsuccessfully contested the Barking constituency at the 1979 general election, achieving a 14% swing. Roe became Member of Parliament for Broxbourne from 1983 until 2005.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/apr/04/mpsuncovered.parliament10|title=Dame Marion Roe DBE|date=4 April 2005|work=The Guardian|access-date=12 February 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} She was a junior environment minister in the 1980s and chaired select committees in the 1990s. A eurosceptic, she was on the council of the right-wing Conservative Way Forward group.

She stepped down at the 2005 general election.

Later life

Following her retirement, Roe established the Dame Marion Roe Young Citizen of the Year award, part of the annual Broxbourne Youth Awards celebrating the achievements of young people from the borough of Broxbourne.{{Cite web|last=LM3|date=2019-04-02|title=Broxbourne Youth Awards 2019|url=https://ex.broxbourne.gov.uk/resident/news/broxbourne-youth-awards-2019|access-date=2020-11-30|website=ex.broxbourne.gov.uk}}

In 2010 she became chair of the trustees of the National Benevolent Fund for the Aged, after the death of Winston Churchill (grandson of the former prime minister).{{cite web|title=Trustees and staff|work=web site|publisher=NBFA|url=http://www.nbfa.org.uk/about-us/our-trustees|access-date=5 August 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815111431/http://www.nbfa.org.uk/about-us/our-trustees/|archive-date=15 August 2011|df=dmy-all}}

She was interviewed in 2013 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project.{{cite web|title=Marion Roe interviewed by Eleanor O'Keefe|url=http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/The-History-of-Parliament-Oral-History-Project/021M-C1503X0071XX-0001V0|publisher=British Library Sound Archive|access-date=26 January 2018}}

Personal life

She married James Kenneth Roe in 1958. They have a son and two daughters - one of whom, Philippa Roe, Baroness Couttie, was the Leader of Westminster City Council and was a member of the House of Lords as a Conservative from 2016 until her death in 2022.