Mary Holt
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Mary Holt (31 July 1924 – 17 February 2021) was a British Conservative politician, barrister and judge.
Early life
Holt was born in July 1924. She gained her degree, an MA LLB with honours, from Girton College, Cambridge.[1][2]
Career
Holt became a barrister in 1949 and practiced on the Northern Circuit.[1] She was the member of parliament (MP) for Preston North from 1970 to 1974, when she lost the seat in the February election of that year to Labour's Ronald Atkins (from whom she had won the seat in 1970). She was the first woman to hold the Preston North seat.[2] In Parliament, she was an advocate for the Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973, which allowed wives to have different addresses to their husbands.[2][3] Her attempt to regain the seat in the October 1974 election was unsuccessful.[4] Holt served as a circuit judge from 1977 to 1995.[1]
Personal life
Holt never married. She died in Fulwood, Preston in February 2021 at the age of 96, weeks after the death of her predecessor (and successor) Ronald Atkins at 104.[5][6]
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External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mary Holt
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- 1924 births
- 2021 deaths
- 20th-century British women politicians
- Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Lancashire
- Politics of Preston
- UK MPs 1970–1974
- Place of birth missing
- 20th-century English women
- 20th-century English politicians
- 20th-century British women judges