About Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn
Lived 1916 – 2010 (aged 94). Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn was a British politician.
Margaret Rosalind Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn, Baroness Delacourt-Smith, JP (née Hando) (5 April 1916 – 8 June 2010) was a British Labour politician.
Biography Margaret Rosalind Hando was born in 1916. Her father, Fred Hando, was an artist, writer and headmaster. Margaret Hando married politician Charles Delacourt-Smith. The couple changed their surname of Smith to Delacourt-Smith by deed poll in 1967, the same year Delacourt-Smith entered the House of Lords.
She was created a life peer in her own right as Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn, of Alteryn in the County of Gwent on 5 July 1974.
She died on 8 June 2010, aged 94.
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life peer (1916-2010)
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Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn was born on 5 April 1916 in Newport.
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Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn died on 8 June 2010.
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Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn was a politician.
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