Betty Boothroyd

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Boothroyd
OM PC
The Right Honourable The Baroness Boothroyd OM PC
	Official portrait, 2018
Speaker of the House of Commons; of the United Kingdom
	In office; 28 April 1992 – 23 October 2000
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	John Major ; Tony Blair
Preceded by	Bernard Weatherill
Succeeded by	Michael Martin
Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons; Second Deputy Chair of Ways and Means;
	In office; 17 June 1987 – 27 April 1992
Speaker	Bernard Weatherill
Preceded by	Paul Dean
Succeeded by	Janet Fookes
Member of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	Life peerage; 15 January 2001 – 26 February 2023
Member of Parliament; for West Bromwich West West Bromwich (1973–1974)
	In office; 24 May 1973 – 23 October 2000
Preceded by	Maurice Foley
Succeeded by	Adrian Bailey
Personal details
Born	8 October 1929; Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died	26 February 2023 (aged 93); Cambridge, England
Resting place	St George's Church, Thriplow, Cambridgeshire, England
Party	Labour (before 1992); Speaker (1992–2000); Crossbench (from 2001);
Alma mater	Kirklees College
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Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd (8 October 1929 – 26 February 2023), was a British politician who served as a member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000. A member of the Labour Party, she served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992 to 2000. She was previously a Deputy Speaker from 1987 to 1992. She was the first and as of 2026, the only woman to serve as Speaker. Boothroyd later sat in the House of Lords as, in accordance with tradition, a crossbench peer.