Muriel Turner, Baroness Turner of Camden

Muriel Winifred Turner, Baroness Turner of Camden (née Price; 18 September 1927 – 26 February 2018) was a British Labour politician and trade union leader.

The Right Honorable
The Baroness Turner of Camden
Member of the House of Lords
In office
29 May 1985 – 13 June 2017
Personal details
Born
Muriel Winifred Price

(1927-09-18)18 September 1927
Died26 February 2018(2018-02-26) (aged 90)
Political partyLabour
Spouse
Reginald Turner
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(m. 1955; died 1995)​

Career

Between 1970 and 1987 Turner was Assistant General Secretary of ASTMS (later Manufacturing, Science and Finance, Amicus and now Unite the Union).[1][2] From 1981 to 1987 she was a member of the TUC General Council.[1]

She was created a Life Peer on 29 May 1985 taking the title Baroness Turner of Camden, of Camden in Greater London.[3] She had a particular interest in social welfare and pensions issues,[1] and from 1987 until October 1996 was Front Bench Spokesperson on Employment for the Labour Opposition.[2] She was Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords between 2002 and 2008.[1][4]

She was a member of the Equal Opportunities Commission 1982–88; the Occupational Pensions Board 1977–93; Council Member, Occupational Pensions Advisory Service, 1989–2007; and chair, Personal Investment Authority Ombudsman Council 1994–97. She was a ranking member of British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom.[4]

Her membership in the House ended on 13 June 2017.[5] She died eight months later, aged 90.[6]

Personal life

In 1955, Muriel Price married Reginald Thomas Frederick Turner, MC, DFC.[7] They did not have any children together but the marriage brought two step children.[8] He predeceased her, dying in 1995.[7]

She was also vice-president of Humanists UK[9] and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.[10] On 15 September 2010, Turner, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.[11]

References
  1. Women in Power: A-Z of Female Members of The House of Lords. Retrieved 1 March 2018
  2. The Committee Office, House of Commons. "House of Commons - Standards and Privileges - First Report". Publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  3. "No. 50143". The London Gazette. 4 June 1985. p. 7725.
  4. "Baroness Muriel Turner". The Independent. Archived from the original on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  5. Non-attending Lords, parliament.uk, accessed 19 June 2017
  6. "Humanists UK mourns Baroness Turner". Humanists UK. 28 February 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  7. "Turner of Camden". Who's Who 2018. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2017. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.38197. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  8. Langdon, Julia (21 March 2018). "Lady Turner of Camden obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  9. "Distinguished supporters of Humanism Richard Norman and Colin Blakemore support H4BW » British Humanist Association". Humanism.org.uk. 26 April 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  10. "National Secular Society - Baroness Turner of Camden". Secularism.org.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  11. "Letters: Harsh judgments on the pope and religion". The Guardian. London. 15 September 2010. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
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