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May Blood, Baroness Blood

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The Baroness Blood

Official portrait, 2018
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
31 July 1999 – 4 September 2018
Personal details
Born(1938-05-26)26 May 1938
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Died21 October 2022(2022-10-21) (aged 84)
Political partyLabour
Other political
affiliations
NIWC (1996–2006)
OccupationLabour movement leader

May Blood, Baroness Blood, MBE[1] (26 May 1938 – 21 October 2022) was a Labour politician. She was a member of the British House of Lords. She was born and raised in Belfast.

Since 1994, she has been an Information Officer of the Greater Shankill Partnership and is a founding member of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1995 Birthday Honours.

Blood died on 21 October 2022, at the age of 84.[2]

References

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  1. "Celebrated citizen: Baroness May Blood MBE", City Matters, September–October 2009. Belfast City Council.
  2. Leebody, Christopher (21 October 2022). "Tributes paid to former Labour peer and 'tireless campaigner' Baroness May Blood following death aged 84". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 21 October 2022.

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