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Rachel Trixie Anne Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes, AM, FRSA, JP〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ministers' Interests )〕 (née McGirr; born ) is an Australian born-British dentist, Conservative politician, and life peeress of the United Kingdom parliament.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Baroness Gardner - Guest Speaker )〕 She is the only Australian woman to date who has been elevated to the peerage. ==Biography== Lady Gardner was born in Parkes, New South Wales, the daughter of Greg McGirr, a former leader of the New South Wales Labor Party.〔 A dentist by profession, she earned a Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) in 1954 from the University of Sydney and later studied at Cordon Bleu de Paris. She was a councillor of Westminster City Council from 1968 to 1978, and was Lady Mayoress 1987-88. In 1970, she stood for the Conservative Party against Barbara Castle (Labour) in Blackburn, and in 1974 stood against John Pardoe (Liberal) in North Cornwall. In 1971 she was made a Justice of the Peace. On 19 June 1981 she was created a life peeress of the United Kingdom as Baroness Gardner of Parkes, of Southgate in Greater London, and of Parkes in the State of New South Wales and Commonwealth of Australia. She was ennobled for her two decades of community and local government work as a Conservative, the first Australian woman to be so honoured. On 4 April 2007 she was made an Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Honorary awards: Rachel Trixie Anne, Baroness Gardner of Parkes AM )〕 ==Background== Baroness Gardner can trace her roots back to Ireland to her grandfather, John McGirr, a native of Moneen, Louisburg, County Mayo, who married Mary O'Sullivan from North Cork.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Baroness Gardner of Parkes )〕 Their son was Gardner's father, Gregory, who led the New South Wales Labor Party from March to July 1923. An uncle, James McGirr, was also in Labor politics, becoming Premier of New South Wales (1947–52). A nephew, Dr Jack McGirr, is a dentist at Lane Cove and is a former Mayor of Lane Cove. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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