Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd, OM, PC (born October 8, 1929 in Dewsbury, England), is a British politician and was the first female Speaker of the House of Commons. Wikipedia
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Betty Boothroyd had a distinguished parliamentary career, becoming a popular Speaker as well as the first woman to hold the influential post. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/830452.stm
Betty Boothroyd was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, on 8th October 1929, to Archibald and Mary Boothroyd, textile workers. www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/boothroyd.html
