Sally Oppenheim-Barnes

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes
PC
Minister of State for Consumer Affairs
In office
6 May 1979 – 4 March 1982
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded byJohn Fraser
Succeeded byGerard Vaughan
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage
9 February 1989 – 25 February 2019
Member of Parliament
for Gloucester
In office
18 June 1970 – 18 May 1987
Preceded byJack Diamond
Succeeded byDouglas French
Personal details
Born
Sarah A. Viner

(1928-07-26) 26 July 1928 (age 96)
Dublin, Ireland
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative

Sarah A. "Sally" Oppenheim-Barnes, Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes, PC (née Viner; born 26 July 1928)[1][2] is a British Conservative politician.

Early life

Born in Dublin in 1928, Viner was raised and educated in Sheffield, where her father founded a steel and cutlery company. She attended Lowther College and worked as a social worker in London before entering politics.[1][3]

Career

At the 1970 general election, she defeated Jack Diamond to represent the constituency of Gloucester; Diamond was the only cabinet minister to lose his seat at that election. She continued as Member of Parliament for Gloucester until 1987 and was Minister of State for Consumer Affairs in the Department of Trade between 1979 and 1982.

Oppenheim-Barnes was created a life peer, as Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes of Gloucester in the County of Gloucestershire, on 9 February 1989.[4] Her son Phillip Oppenheim is a former Conservative MP for Amber Valley. Between 1983 and 1987 mother and son served simultaneously in the House of Commons. On 25 February 2019 she retired from the House of Lords under the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958" index". FamilySearch.
  2. ^ "Happy 90th birthday to former Gloucester MP". Punchline Gloucester. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Oppenheim, Sally". Jewish Virtual Library. Biodata, with year of birth given correctly as 1928.
  4. ^ "No. 51646". The London Gazette. 15 February 1989. p. 1935.
  5. ^ "Retirement of a Member: Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes". Hansard. 25 February 2019.
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