Lee, Jennie, Baroness of Asheridge
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▪ British pol
in full Janet Lee , married name Janet Bevan
born Nov. 3, 1904, Lochgelly, Fife, Scot.
died Nov. 16, 1988, London, Eng.
British politician, member of Parliament and of the Labour Party, known for promoting the arts as a serious government concern.
Lee, the daughter of a coal miner who was active in the Independent Labour Party (
ILP), graduated from the University of Edinburgh (M.A., 1926; LL.B., 1927). She taught school until 1929, when she won election to the House of Commons as an ILP candidate representing North Lanark, thereby becoming the youngest MP. Failing reelection (1931), she turned to journalism and lecturing. In 1934 she married MP and Labour Party leader Aneurin “Nye” Bevan. (
Bevan, Aneurin)
During World War II she served with the Ministry of Aircraft Production and as a political correspondent until she was returned to Parliament as Labour Party representative from Cannock (1945). During her tenure as minister for the arts (1964–70), government funding for the arts more than doubled, the film industry was strengthened, theatre censorship by the lord chamberlain was abolished, and the Open University was founded. Lee was made privy councillor in 1966 and a life peer in 1970. She published two autobiographies, Tomorrow Is a New Day (1939) and My Life with Nye (1980).
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