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Betty Boothroyd announced her retirement shortly before the summer recess in 2000, which left a long time for would-be Speakers to declare their candidature but little opportunity for Members of Parliament to negotiate and decide on who should be chosen.
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* 1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
* April 27 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman elected Speaker of the British House of Commons.
As Father of the House he oversaw the election of two Speakers of the Commons, Betty Boothroyd and Michael Martin.
It was reopened by Betty Boothroyd and was renamed after Howard Piper, a Maths student of the college who died shortly after graduating.
* Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd ( born 1929 ), politician ; first female Speaker of the House of Commons between 1992 and 2000 ).
She also served on the Labour National Executive Committee for seven years, from 1981 to 1988, collaborating closely with Betty Boothroyd.
By the precedent set by Betty Boothroyd, a female speaker of the house of commons is Madam Speaker or Miss Boothroyd.
Betty Boothroyd, a Labour MP who had been Deputy Speaker, was known to be extremely interested in becoming the first woman Speaker ( and in doing so, finished the chances of fellow Labour MP Harold Walker who had also been Deputy Speaker ).
Prior to the counting error having been noted, Speaker Betty Boothroyd did give a Casting Vote of No, although this was later expunged when the error became clear.
Betty Boothroyd first decided not to wear the wig and Michael Martin chose not to wear knee breeches, silk stockings or the traditional buckled shoes favouring flannel trousers and Oxford shoes.
The first floor houses a number of conference suites and committee rooms, which are named after famous politicians Betty Boothroyd, Harold Macmillan, Margaret Thatcher, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, and Jo Grimond.
( The House instead elected the Labour MP Betty Boothroyd to the role, with several Conservative MPs voting against Brooke on the grounds that he had too recently been in the Cabinet and was thus not sufficiently close to the backbenches.
Following the 1997 general election, he was appointed Chairman of Ways and Means ( Deputy Speaker ), remaining in that post under successive Speakers Betty Boothroyd, Michael Martin, and John Bercow until May 2010.
At the time of the resignation of Commons Speaker, Betty Boothroyd in 2000, Bailey was the Secretary of the constituency Labour Party and Deputy Leader of the local council and seemed the obvious choice to fight the impending by-election.
Betty and announced
In early 2006, Breakthrough Entertainment, the producers of the series Atomic Betty and Paradise Falls, announced that an animated comedy series based on the character was in development.
On March 23, 2012 Olive Films announced plans to release in DVD and Blu-ray formats the 66 Betty Boop cartoons which are not in the public domain, under exclusive license from Paramount / Republic.
In December 2001, WPIX VP / General Manager Betty Ellen Berlamino announced on WPLJ radio that the special would return after eleven years of not being broadcast.
In 2005, Columbia University announced the opening of the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center.
In 2005 the University announced the opening of the museum, the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center.
It has been announced on Atomic Cartoons ' official website that a sequel series, Atomic Betty Redux, is currently in production.
EarthLink announced on 3 January 2007 that Betty had died at the age of 49 from complications of adrenal cortical cancer .< ref >
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By then they had probably developed a taste for Madeira wine, and on 29 September near Cape Charles all they took from the Betty of Virginia was her cargo of Madeira, before they scuttled her with the remaining cargo.
Coronation Street's stalwart cast slotted back into the programme alongside the newcomers, examining new relationships between characters of different ages and backgrounds: Eddie Yeats became the Ogdens ' lodger, Gail Potter and Suzie Birchall moved in with Elsie, Mike Baldwin ( Johnny Briggs ) arrived in 1976 as the tough factory boss, and Annie Walker reigned at the Rovers with her trio of staff Bet Lynch, Betty Turpin and Fred Gee.
Bowman contacts his former girl friend, Betty Fernandez, appearing on her television screen by manipulating the tube, and in a more physical way to his elderly mother, who lies dying.
George first courted Elizabeth ( Betty ) Hindmarsh, a farmer's daughter from Black Callerton, whom he would meet secretly in her orchard.
Before going sober, Chapman jokingly referred to himself as the British actress Betty Marsden, possibly because of Marsden's oft-quoted desire to die with a glass of gin in her hand.
Moore made a guest appearance on the season 2 premiere of Hot in Cleveland, which stars her old co-star Betty White.
During his time in college, Betty returned to live with her parents and took a job at the Indiana Bell Telephone Company while he worked part time as a cook at a local restaurant.
At the end of the Australian tour, Nicks checked herself into the Betty Ford Center to overcome her cocaine addiction.
At the request of Lummox, the recently married John and Betty accompany her back to her people as members of the human diplomatic mission.
Archeologist Betty J. Meggers was a prominent proponent of this idea, as described in her book Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise.
Assisted by such loyal supporters as the pilot Donald Macleod, a MacGillechaluim of Raasay, Colonel Con O ' Neill, a Clanaboy O ' Neill Prince of the O ' Neill_dynasty and Flora MacDonald, who helped him escape pursuers on the Isle of Skye by taking him in a small boat disguised as her Irish maid, " Betty Burke ," he evaded capture and left the country aboard the French frigate L ' Heureux, arriving back in France in September.
The dream crashes when Lennie accidentally kills the young and attractive wife ( Betty Field ) of Curley ( Bob Steele ), the ranch owner's son, while trying to stroke her hair.
Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known from early childhood as " Betty ", was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ruth Augusta " Ruthie " ( née Favor ) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney ; her sister, Barbara " Bobby ", was born October 25, 1909.
Betty was inspired to become an actress after seeing Rudolph Valentino in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( 1921 ) and Mary Pickford in Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1921 ), and changed the spelling of her name to " Bette " after Honoré de Balzac's La Cousine Bette.
In 1983, Rosemary and her brother Nick co-chaired the Betty Clooney Foundation for the Brain-Injured, addressing the needs of survivors of cognitive disabilities caused by strokes, tumors and brain damage from trauma or age.
Helen Boyd, author of My Husband Betty and She's Not the Man I Married, has argued on her blog that cissexual is a less loaded term than cisgender and reflects fewer assumptions about the person's relationship to gender roles and the transgender community .< ref >
In addition, the National Board of Review nominated the film for Best Picture of 1944, and awarded Betty Hutton the award for Best Acting for her performance in the film.
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