Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger

Barbara Frances Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger (14 April 1897 – 11 July 1988), was a British sociologist and criminologist. She was the first of four women to be appointed a life peer, entitled to sit in the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958, after the names of the holders of the first 14 life peerages to be created had been announced on 24 July. She was governor of the BBC from 1950 to 1956 and president of the British Sociological Association from 1959 to 1964.

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