Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir (ePub)
In this characteristically trenchant memoir, the indomitable Jean Trumpington looks back on her long...
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Forthright, witty and deliciously opinionated, Jean Trumpington's Coming Up Trumps is a wonderfully readable account of a life very well lived.
In this characteristically trenchant memoir, the indomitable Jean Trumpington looks back on her long and remarkable life. The daughter of an officer in the Bengal Lancers and an American heiress, Jean Campbell-Harris was born into a world of considerable privilege, but the Wall Street Crash entirely wiped out her mother's fortune.
At fifteen the young Jean Campbell-Harris was sent to Paris to study but two years later, with the outbreak of the Second World War, she became a land girl. However, she quickly changed direction, joining naval intelligence at Bletchley Park, where she stayed for the rest of the war. After the war she worked first in Paris and then on Madison Avenue, New York, with advertising's 'mad men'. It was here that she met her husband, the historian Alan Barker, and their marriage, in 1954, ushered in the happiest period of her life before embarking on her distinguished political career, as a Cambridge City councillor, Mayor of Cambridge and, then, in 1980, a life peer.
Jean Barker, as she then was, began her political career as a Cambridge City Councillor in the early 1960s, rising to become Mayor of Cambridge in 1971. In 1980 she was made a life peer, choosing the title of Baroness Trumpington of Sandwich. She has served in two Conservative governments, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Health and Social Security from 1985 to 1988 and as Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1989 to 1992, which, at the age of sixty-nine, made her the oldest female minister ever. Today, she is still an active member of the government front bench in the House of Lords and, in November 2012, aged ninety, was the oldest-ever guest to have appeared on Have I Got News for You. Widowed in 1988, Baroness Trumpington lives in Battersea.
- Autor: Jean Trumpington
- Altersempfehlung: 18 - 99 Jahre
- 2014, 324 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1447265351
- ISBN-13: 9781447265351
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.04.2014
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- Größe: 2.78 MB
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