![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She chaired the Lancashire Police Authority from 1995 to 2005, and the Association of Police Authorities from 1997 to 2005. Ruth Henig was first elected to Lancashire County Council in 1981, serving until 2005. From Wyggeston Girls’ Grammar School in Leicester, she read History at Bedford College.Īfter three decades as a lecturer, then senior lecturer, at Lancaster, she was appointed head of the History Department in 1995 and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in 1997, serving until 2000. She was born Ruth Beatrice Munzer on November 10 1943, the daughter of Jewish refugees who had escaped to Britain from the Netherlands in 1940. After her husband lost his seat in 1970, their academic and political partnership was resumed she took her PhD in 1978, and wrote several authoritative books. Ruth Henig had graduated from Bedford College, London, the year before, and continued her studies in Lancaster University’s then temporary buildings. The long-planned nuptials went ahead as the campaign in Leicester reached its critical stage – Stanley Henig’s soon -to-be-defeated Tory opponent Humphry Berkeley characteristically sending his best wishes. ![]() The Henigs’ wedding at a Leicester synagogue in March 1966 was overshadowed by the Prime Minister Harold Wilson calling a snap general election in the hope of increasing the government’s tiny majority. At the 1992 election, she herself stood as Labour candidate for his former seat, reducing the majority of the sitting Conservative Elaine Kellett-Bowman by two thirds. Until their divorce in 1993, she worked in close partnership with her first husband Stanley Henig, a fellow historian, MP for Lancaster from 1966 to 1970 and a colleague on the county council. Baroness Henig, a deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, who has died aged 80, was previously an academic at Lancaster University, and Labour chairman of Lancashire County Council in 1999-2000.Ī specialist in Modern European History, Ruth Henig was a fixture at the university from her arrival as a postgraduate in 1966, two years after its foundation, until her appointment as one of its first six Honorary Fellows in 2006. ![]()
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