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Description:
Dame Dehra S. Parker
,
GBE
,
PC
(13 August 1882 - 30 November 1963) was the longest serving woman MP in the
Northern Ireland House of Commons
.
Family life
Dehra Kerr-Fisher
was born in a military hospital in
Dehra Dun
, north of
Delhi
,
India
, in
1882
, the daughter of James Kerr-Fisher of
Kilrea
,
County Londonderry
. The surname has been spelled, alternatively as
Ker-Fisher
or
Ker Fisher
.
Marriages
She was married on two occasions, firstly to
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Peel Dawson Spencer Chichester, MP
, both of whom predeceased her.
She married, secondly, Admiral Henry Wise Parker (
CB
,
CMG
) on 4 June 1928.
Political career
Dame Dehra was first elected as a Member of Parliament for
Londonderry
, as
Dehra Chichester
(which she was known as prior to her second marriage in 1928), in the
Northern Ireland general election, 1921
. She stood down at the
1929 election
but was again elected in
the 1933 election
for the
South Londonderry
constituency following the death of her son-in-law
James Lenox-Conyngham Chichester-Clark
, and...
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