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The Baroness Blood | |
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 Official portrait, 2018 | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 31 July 1999 – 4 September 2018 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 May 1938 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Died | 21 October 2022 (aged 84) |
| Political party | Labour |
| Other political affiliations | NIWC (1996–2006) |
| Occupation | Labour movement leader |
May Blood, Baroness Blood, MBE (26 May 1938 – 21 October 2022) was a British politician who was a member of the House of Lords, where she was a Labour peer and the first peeress from Northern Ireland from 31 July 1999 to 4 September 2018.[1]
Blood was a founding member of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition (NIWC). She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1995 Birthday Honours "for services to Equal Opportunities and to Industrial Relations".[2] Blood received an honorary D.Univ. from Ulster University in 1998, Queen's University of Belfast in 2000, and Open University in 2001. In her 2007 autobiography Watch my Lips, I'm Speaking was published by Gill Books.[3]
- ^ Llewelyn, Abbie (25 October 2022). "Peers pay tribute to Baroness May Blood following death aged 84". Independent. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- ^ "No. 54066". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 1995. p. 15.
- ^ Watch my Lips, I'm Speaking, Gill & Macmillan (September 2007); ISBN 0-7171-4252-3
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