Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen

Doreen Elizabeth Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen (born 5 September 1938) is a Labour member of the House of Lords.

A former teacher and education advisor, she was the Director of the Family Planning Association from 1989 to 1994. She was made a Life Peer as Baroness Massey of Darwen, of Darwen in the County of Lancashire in 1999 and worked in the House of Lords as member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated and Complementary Healthcare (http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmparty/060512/memi272.htm)

She is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society, and secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group.^[1]

On 15 September 2010, Massey, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.^[2]

References

1. ^ "All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group". British Humanist Association. http://www.humanism.org.uk/about/apphg. Retrieved 3rd August 2010. 
2. ^ "Letters: Harsh judgments on the pope and religion". The Guardian (London). 15 September 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/15/harsh-judgments-on-pope-religion. Retrieved 16 September 2010. 

External links

• Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 1 November 1999
• Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children
• Vice President, Royal Society for Public Health

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