Doris Mary Gertrude Fisher

Background

Born in Birmingham, she was the daughter of Frederick James Satchwell.

Education

She was educated at Tinker"s Farm Girls" School and went then to Fircroft College and afterwards Bournville Day Continuation College.

Career

She joined the Labour Party in 1945 and was nominated director of her local Company-operative board in 1951. Fisher was National President of the Company-operative Party Guild in 1961 and was appointed a Justice of the Peace. After her departure from the House of Commons, she was created a life peer as Baroness Fisher of Rednal, of Rednal, in the City of Birmingham on 2 July 1974.

In the House of Lords, Fisher became Crown Representative of the General Medical Council in September 1974 and later chaired the Esperanto Group.

She was nominated an Assistant Whip for Environment in 1983, an office she held until the following year. Fisher entered the European Parliament in 1975, sitting in Strasbourg until 1979.

She was vice-president of the Institute of Trading Standards Administration (today the Trading Standards Institute). In December 1991, at the age of 72, Lady Fisher slept rough in a nest of cardboard boxes at Birmingham"s Street Philip"s Cathedral to draw attention to the plight of the city"s homeless.

Achievements

• She contested Birmingham, Ladywood in 1969 at a by-election won by Wallace Lawler of the Liberals.

Membership

45th United Kingdom Parliament]

A year later, Fisher was elected a member of the Birmingham City Council, in which she sat until 1974. Subsequently she served as a member of the Warrington and Runcorn Development Corporation until 1989. In the following general election, she was successful for the constituency and represented it as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) the next four years.