ELAINE KELLETT-BOWMAN

'Dame Mary Elaine Kellett-Bowman, DBE' (born 8 July 1924) is a British Conservative politician.
Born 'Mary Elaine Kay', she was educated at The Mount School, York, St Anne's College, Oxford and Barnett House, Oxford, and became a barrister, called to the bar by Middle Temple in 1964. She served as a councillor on Denbigh Borough Council 1952-1955 and the London Borough of Camden 1968-1974. She was also a governor of Culford School 1963–2003.
As Mary Kellett, she contested Nelson and Colne (1955), South West Norfolk twice in 1959, and Buckingham (1964, 1966). She was MP for Lancaster from 1970 until her retirement in 1997. She also served as MEP for Cumbria and Lancashire North from 1975 until losing in 1984.
She had four children with her first husband (Kellett) but was widowed; she remarried Edward Bowman, several years her junior, who would become a future MEP; both took the shared surname of 'Kellett-Bowman'.

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★ ''Times Guide to the House of Commons'', Times Newspapers Limited, 1955, 1966, 1992 and 1997 editions.

★ ''Who's Who'', 2007 edition.