Marion Roe


Dame Marion Audrey Roe, DBE is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom, and former MP.

Early life

She went to the independent Bromley High School for Girls in Bickley, then the independent Croydon High School. She studied at the English School of Languages in Vevey in Switzerland.

Parliamentary career

She unsuccessfully contested the Barking constituency at the 1979 general election. She served on the Greater London Council and was Member of Parliament for Broxbourne from 1983 until 2005. A eurosceptic, she is on the council of the right-wing Conservative Way Forward group. She was a junior environment minister in the 1980s and chaired select committees in the 1990s. She stepped down at the 2005 general election.
In 2010 she became chair of the trustees of the National Benevolent Fund for the Aged, after the death of Winston Churchill.
She was interviewed in 2013 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project.

Personal life

She married James Kenneth Roe in 1958. They have a son and two daughters - one of whom, Philippa Roe, Baroness Couttie, was the Leader of Westminster City Council and now a member of the House of Lords as a Conservative.