Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger

Barbara Frances Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger, was a British sociologist and criminologist. She was the first of four women to be appointed a life peer, entitled to sit in the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958, after the names of the holders of the first 14 life peerages to be created had been announced on 24 July. She was governor of the BBC from 1950 to 1956 and president of the British Sociological Association from 1959 to 1964.

Occupation

politician, economist, sociologist, criminologist

Position held

member of the House of Lords, Governor of the BBC

Citizenship

United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Born

April 14, 1897, 1897

Died

July 11, 1988