Lady Miller was born in 1933 an educated at Brondesbury and Kilburn High School and the London School of Economics.
Lady Miller founded an international mail order and marketing company which operated in the UK, Germany and Australia and subsequently sold all three segments on her retirement from business in order to spend more time with her politics.
Lady Miller is a member of, or patron of, a number of Local Conservative Associations, and a former Treasurer, then Chairman of the Greater London Conservatives.
Indeed, BaronessMiller had to table the amendment three times and put up with a good deal of rather ungentlemanly ridicule from the Government Dispatch Box before the wisdom of what she was advocating came to be recognised.
Friends will know BaronessMiller well, and would know better than to step in her way when she is determined to achieve something.
The second time that she tabled it, the noble Baroness was told that the matter was trivial and technical, and that she had failed to understand it.
In its report the Committee, whilst not expressing a view whether this provision could be regarded as a Henry VIII power, noted that negative procedure was consistent with similar powers it had approved in the past and considered it to be appropriate in this case also.
During consideration of the Bill at Committee Stage in the House of Lords, Baroness Anelay of St Johns and BaronessMiller of Hendon tabled an amendment to make the order making power subject to the affirmative procedure.
The reasons employed in support of the amendment are noted in the attached extract from the official report (House of Lords, 29 October 2001, columns 1233 to 1236).
Hilary Clavering - Treasurer & Share Registrar - 63 Committee; BaronessDoreenMiller of Hendon - Soroptimist hostess of lunch and sister to Gloria Proops; Mrs Camilla Parker-Bowles - Guest of honour; Maureen Briggs - Chairman of 63 committee; Anne Garvie - SIGBI Federation President; JoAnne Trustcott - Secretary of 63 Committee.
One hundred and twenty Soroptimists attended Lunch at the House of Lords on Wednesday 14th July, price of tickets is £63 representing the fact the event is to raise funds for our beloved '63'.
The lunch is hosted by Gloria's sister BaronessDoreenMiller of Hendon who is a Soroptimist, in the early 1990's she was the Programme Action Advisor for Human Rights and Status of Women and she, like all of us, loves '63' and will do anything to give it the credence it deserves.
She was Vice-Chairperson 1990-94, Chairperson of the Association of County Councils 1994-97, Chairperson of Lancashire County Council 1992, leader of the Labour Group in the Council 1987- 94, Opposition Whip in the House of Lords 1996-97, Josephine Farrington was created a Baroness in 1994.
Cathy Ashton was appointed Baroness Ashton of Upholland, of St Albans in Hertfordshire in1999.
She was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean as Minister of State for Trade and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords (b.
As I explained to the noble Baroness in Grand Committee, the present wording of Section 23(5) enables an order made under Section 23 to extend rights to individuals by means of a "free-standing" provision in an instrument, if that appears preferable, rather than by an amendment to existing primary or secondary legislation.
If we were to extend certain rights to everyone called Doreen, "or otherwise" means that we could draw up a list listing the rights—that is, rights already established in law—and say that they applied to people called Doreen.
If the noble Baroness is objecting to the power to extend those rights, that is in the basic legislation.
And the former minister of state in the Department for Education and shadow minister for education, Baroness Emily May Blatch, will be the Conservative's education spokesperson in the House of Lords.
In the House of Lords, Baroness Blatch will be backed up by BaronessDoreenMiller of Hendon.
The Conservatives are facing a challenge on education.
In autumn 1996 a lunch in the House of Lords was arranged to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Soroptimism.
The host was BaronessDoreenMiller of Hendon (S.1.
Our President, Mary Gray, was chosen to represent Scotland along with the President of Scotland South, Sheena Laing, and the President of S.I. Dunblane, Julia Whytock.
The purpos of this bill is to lower the homosexual age of sexual consent to 16, the same age that applies to consenting heterosexual relations.
Schoolchildren were being exposed to explicit "pornography" in the form of information supplied by health authorities and other organisations to teachers, she warned.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. - The two Democratic front-runners in the primary race to succeed Sen. Zell Miller clashed Tuesday on whether they would support an amendment to the Georgia constitution banning gay marriages.
U.S. Rep. Denise Majette said she would cast her ballot against the amendment to restrict marriages in Georgia to same-sex couples, a measure the state Legislature has approved for a statewide vote in November.
Ben Townley, Gay.com UK British Airways could be facing a boycott from lesbian and gay fliers, because of Baroness O'Cathain's homophobic comments in the House of Lords.
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