Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger
Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger, CH (14 April 1897 – 11 July 1988) was a British sociologist and criminologist. She was the first of four women to be appointed as a life peer, entitled to serve in the House of Lords, under the Life Peerages Act 1958, after the names of the holders of the first 14 life peerages to be created had been announced on 24 July. She was President of the British Sociological Association from 1959 to 1964.
The Right Honourable The Baroness Wootton of Abinger CH | |
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| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 8 August 1958 – 11 July 1988 Life Peerage | |
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| Born | Barbara Adam 14 April 1897 Cambridge, England |
| Died | 11 July 1988 (aged 91) Surrey, England |
| Occupation | Sociologist and criminologist |
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