Doris Fisher, Baroness Fisher of Rednal

Doris Mary Gertrude Fisher, Baroness Fisher of Rednal, née Satchwell, JP (13 September 1919 – 18 December 2005) was a British politician. Born in Birmingham, she was the daughter of Frederick James Satchwell. She was educated at Tinker's Farm Girls' School and went then to Fircroft College and afterwards Bournville Day Continuation College. She joined the Labour Party in 1945 and was nominated director of her local Co-operative board in 1951. A year later, Fisher was elected a member of the Birmingham City Council, in which she sat until 1974. Subsequently she served as a member of the Warrington and Runcorn Development Corporation until 1989. Fisher was National President of the Co-operative Party Guild in 1961 and was appointed a...