House Heroes". PoliticsHome.com. 23 November 2016. Archived from the original on 25 March 2019 . Retrieved 25 March 2019. Artwork – Baroness Boothroyd". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 8 July 2017 . Retrieved 29 July 2017. The real disappointment of this book is the chapters on her time on the Commons throne. A defensive account of her speakership, overly padded with unrelieved slabs of Hansard and newspaper cuttings, adds little to our knowledge of its controversies. A cast of the great, the good and the not so good swim in and out of view. Boris Yeltsin and Jacques Chirac, both pictured kissing the hand of Her Bettyness, come calling. She meets Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton. If there is anything interesting to disclose about these encounters, then you will not find it here. Betty Boothroyd: To Parliament and beyond". BBC Online. 24 October 2001 . Retrieved 21 January 2009. Kidd, Charles; Shaw, Christine, eds. (2008). Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage (145ed.). p.150. ISBN 978-1870520805.

Tominey, Camilla (27 February 2023). "Betty Boothroyd, first female Speaker, dies aged 93". The Telegraph . Retrieved 27 February 2023.

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She believed that it was up to MPs to make changes in the way business was done, rather than the occupant of the chair, but she did complain vociferously in public and in private at the growing practice of ministers choosing to bypass the House of Commons and make important political pronouncements on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme instead. This became a particular issue after the election of Tony Blair in 1997. After two years across the pond, she returned to the UK where she worked as a political assistant to Labour minister Lord Harry Walston. Langdon, Julia (27 February 2023). "LadyBoothroydobituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 29 March 2023.

Her appointment was contested by Conservative MP John Brooke, but Baroness Boothroyd won a vote by 372 votes to 238. Boothroyd took her seat as a crossbench peer in 2001 when she retired from the speakership. Honours and honorary degrees were heaped upon her, by universities including Oxford, Cambridge, London and St Andrews, but her personal interests centred on her role as chancellor of the Open University. It was a post she was invited to accept because of her support for the universal right to adult education. Betty:Irefusedthreemarriageproposals". Belfast Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 27 February 2023.

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Baroness Boothroyd stood down from her position as Speaker in 2000 after eight years in the chair presiding over MPs with a firm manner and sense of humour. Boothroyd was made an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Light and Lighting (Hon. FSLL) in 2009, [30] [31] and she was an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford, and of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. [32] She was Patron of the Jo Richardson Community School in Dagenham, East London, and President of NBFA Assisting the Elderly. She was, for a period, Vice President of the Industry and Parliament Trust.From 1992 to 2000, she served as Speaker of the House of Commons. She was the first, and to date only, female Speaker of the House of Commons. [1] She sat, by tradition, as a Crossbench peer in the House of Lords. House of Commons Speaker's Residence". C-SPAN. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019 . Retrieved 15 February 2019. EUROPEANPARLIAMENT(MEMBERSHIP)(Hansard,1March1977)". ParliamentaryDebates(Hansard). 1 March 1977. Archived from the original on 16 January 2017 . Retrieved 13 January 2017. Former prime ministers also shared their tributes, with Sir Tony Blair describing her as a “big-hearted and kind person”, and the ex-Conservative prime minister Sir John Major said she was “easy to like and easier still to admire”. In 1975, she was elected a member of the European Parliament and became a vocal advocate of the common market.

During this time, she spoke twice in the Indian Lok Sabha, once in the Russian Duma and in most European parliaments. Betty Boothroyd: To Parliament and beyond". BBC. 24 Hydref 2001. Archifwyd o'r gwreiddiol ar 24 May 2009 . Cyrchwyd 21 Ionawr 2009. Boothroyd modernised the Commons speaker role as she refused to wear the traditional white wig, and ensured her successors would be able to choose whether to do so.She was a truly outstanding speaker, presiding with great authority, warmth and wit, for which she had our deep respect and admiration,” Blair wrote. Boothroyd neither married nor had children. [34] [35] She took up paragliding while on holiday in Cyprus in her 60s. She described the hobby as both "lovely and peaceful" and "exhilarating". [36] In April 1995, whilst on holiday in Morocco, Boothroyd became trapped in the Atlas Mountains in the country's biggest storm in 20 years. Her vehicle was immobilised by a landslide; she and a group of hikers walked through mud and rubble for nine hours before they were rescued. [37] [38] BettyBoothroyd:FuneralheldforfirstwomanCommonsSpeaker". BBC News. 29 March 2023 . Retrieved 30 March 2023. Baroness Boothroyd once reminded MPs that her role was "to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view".