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May Blood, Baroness Blood
May Blood, Baroness Blood, MBE (born 26 May 1938) is a Labour member of the British House of Lords.
Blood was born and raised in Belfast and worked in a linen mill from 1952-90 where she soon became an active member of the trade union and a shop steward. She was involved in creating the women's committee in the Trade Union and promoting equality for women at work. Later she worked as a manager of Cairn Martin Wood Products from 1991-94.
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. In 1998, she was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Ulster and was created a life peeress as Baroness Blood, ''of Blackwatertown in the County of Armagh'' on 31 July 1999. She was the first woman in Northern Ireland to be given a life peerage.〔"Celebrated citizen: Baroness May Blood MBE", ''City Matters'', September–October 2009. Belfast City Council.〕
She received an honorary D.Univ from the Queen's University of Belfast in 2000, and again from the Open University the following year. In 2007, she published her autobiography, ''Watch my Lips, I'm Speaking''.〔''Watch my Lips, I'm Speaking'', Gill & Macmillan Ltd (September 2007); ISBN 0-7171-4252-3〕 In January 2013, Blood was awarded the Grassroot Diplomat Initiative Award under the Social Driver category for her tireless campaign for integrated education in Northern Ireland, where she helped to raise over £15 million.
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