Alice Boase

Alice Mary Boase (23 March 1910 – 1999) was a Ugandan politician. She and Barbara Saben were appointed to the Legislative Council in 1954, becoming its first female members.

Biography Boase was born 23 March 1910 in Dublin. When she was two her parents moved to Nyasaland after her father Charles had been appointed as a magistrate. The family moved to Uganda when Charles was appointed Chief Justice of the colony in 1921. In 1929 Alice married the physician Arthur Boase (1901–1986); the couple went on to have ten children. In 1954 Boase and Barbara Saben were appointed to the Legislative Council, becoming its first female members. She left Uganda in 1956 when Arthur began working at Saint John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem.