Doris Fisher, Baroness Fisher of Rednal
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Fisher of Rednal JP |
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| Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for Birmingham, Ladywood |
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In office 18 June 1970 – 27 February 1974 |
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| Prime Minister | Edward Heath |
| Preceded by | Wallace Lawler |
| Succeeded by | Brian Walden |
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Doris Mary Gertrude Satchwell 13 September 1919 Birmingham, England |
| Died | 18 December 2005 (aged 86) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
Doris Mary Gertrude Fisher, Baroness Fisher of Rednal, JP (13 September 1919–18 December 2005), née Satchwell, was a British politician.
Born in Birmingham, she was the daughter of Frederick James Satchwell. She was educated at Tinker's Farm Girls' School, Fircroft College and Bournville Day Continuation College.
She joined the Labour Party in 1945 and was nominated director of her local Co-operative board in 1951. A year later, Fisher was elected a member of the Birmingham City Council, in which she sat until 1974. Subsequently she served as a member of the Warrington and Runcorn Development Corporation until 1989. Fisher was National President of the Co-operative Party Guild in 1961 and was appointed a Justice of the Peace.
She contested Birmingham, Ladywood in 1969 at a by-election in which Wallace Lawler of the Liberals gained the seat from Labour. In the following general election, Fisher defeated him when she was returned as the constituency MP, representing the seat until the Febnruary 1974 general election when her seat was altered in boundary changes. After her departure from the House of Commons, she was created a life peer as Baroness Fisher of Rednal, of Rednal, in the City of Birmingham on 2 July 1974.
In the House of Lords, Fisher became Crown Representative of the General Medical Council in September 1974 and later chaired the Esperanto Group. She was nominated an Assistant Whip for Environment in 1983, an office she held until the following year. Fisher entered the European Parliament in 1975, sitting in Strasbourg until 1979. She was vice-president of the Institute of Trading Standards Administration (today the Trading Standards Institute).
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