Dame Peggy Fenner, DBE was a British Conservative Party politician.
12 Facts About Peggy Fenner
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Peggy Fenner made a strong impression among Kentish Tories, and in 1964 was shortlisted ahead of 104 applicants, almost all men, to succeed Harold Macmillan at Bromley.
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Peggy Fenner served as Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, with responsibility for food, from November 1972 to February 1974 under Edward Heath, and again from September 1981 to September 1986 under Margaret Thatcher.
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Peggy Fenner attended only a handful of sessions before Harold Wilson called another election and Labour's Bob Bean ousted her by 2,418 votes.
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Peggy Fenner was out of the Commons for Thatcher's overthrow of Heath, and as the Tories regrouped for a return to government.
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Peggy Fenner won back Rochester and Chatham in 1979, by 2,688 votes.
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Peggy Fenner presided over the first raising of the Thames Barrier.
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At the 1983 election the Rochester and Chatham seat was abolished and Peggy Fenner was elected MP for the new constituency of Medway.
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Peggy Fenner continued to hold the seat for the next fourteen years, being re-elected at the 1987 and 1992 general elections, until she lost it at the 1997 election to Labour's Bob Marshall-Andrews.
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Dame Peggy Fenner became a leading campaigner against the high speed link across Kent to the Channel Tunnel.
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Peggy Fenner's parents divorced when she was three and she never saw her father again.
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In 1940 aged 18 she married architect Bernard Peggy Fenner and went into wartime factory work.