The Right Honourable Betty Boothroyd, MP

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Jane Bond studied at Saint Martins School of Art, City and Guilds School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. Amongst her many portrait commissions are paintings of Lord Ron Dearing, CB, and The Right Honourable Baroness Perry of Southwalk. This portrait of The Right Honourable Betty Boothroyd was exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition in May 2000. The Right Honourable Betty Boothroyd was Britain's first female Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992–2000. Joining the Labour League of Youth at the age of 16, and a member of the National consultative Committee by 1945, she then became personal/political assistant to Barbara Castle in 1956–1958. In 1973, Boothroyd became MP for West Bromwich and in 1975 MP for West Bromwich West until 2000 and raised to peerage in 2001 to become Baroness Boothroyd of Sandwell in the county of the West Midlands.
Title

The Right Honourable Betty Boothroyd, MP

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 123 x W 101 cm (E)

Accession number

WOA 5445

Work type

Painting

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