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High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland">Her Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1970–1971</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Monarch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Reith,_1st_Baron_Reith" title="John Reith, 1st Baron Reith">The Lord Reith</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Colville,_2nd_Baron_Clydesmuir" 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class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" title="University of Glasgow">University of Glasgow</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Politician" title="Politician">Politician</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Teacher" title="Teacher">Teacher</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Margaret McCrorie Herbison</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_(United_Kingdom)" title="Privy Council (United Kingdom)">PC</a></span></span> (11 March 1907 – 29 December 1996) was a <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scottish</a> <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> politician who was <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Work_and_Pensions" title="Secretary of State for Work and Pensions">Minister of Social Security</a> from 1964 to 1967. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peggy_Herbison&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Herbison was born on 11 March 1907 in <a href="/wiki/Shotts" title="Shotts">Shotts</a>, Lanarkshire to Maria Jane McCrorie and John Herbison, a coal miner.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was schooled at Dykehead primary school and <a href="/wiki/Bellshill#Education" title="Bellshill">Bellshill 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She attended the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" title="University of Glasgow">University of Glasgow</a> graduating with an <a href="/wiki/Scottish_MA" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish MA">MA</a> in English in 1928. While at university she chaired its Labour Party branch.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1930 to 1945 Herbison worked as a teacher of English and history at Maryhill primary school and <a href="/wiki/Allan_Glen%27s_School" title="Allan Glen's School">Alan Glen's secondary school</a>, both in Glasgow. She also worked as an economics tutor at the <a href="/wiki/National_Council_of_Labour_Colleges" title="National Council of Labour Colleges">National Council of Labour Colleges</a>, and served on the Miners' Welfare Commission. During this time she was active in local Labour politics.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peggy_Herbison&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Peggy_Herbison" title="Special:EditPage/Peggy Herbison">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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She won the nomination, and subsequently took the seat at the <a href="/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1945 United Kingdom general election">General Election of 1945</a> from the Conservative <a href="/wiki/William_Anstruther-Gray,_Baron_Kilmany" title="William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany">Sir William Anstruther Grey</a>. </p><p>In government, she held office as Joint Parliamentary <a href="/wiki/Under-Secretary_of_State_for_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="Under-Secretary of State for Scotland">Under-Secretary of State for Scotland</a> from 1950 to 1951, as <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Work_and_Pensions#Minister_of_Social_Insurance/National_Insurance_(1944–1953)" title="Secretary of State for Work and Pensions">Minister of Pensions and National Insurance</a> from 1964 to 1966, and as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Social_Security_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Social Security (UK)">Minister of Social Security</a> from 1966 to 1967. She was opposition spokesperson on Scotland (1951–1956, 1959–1962), Education (1956–1959), and Pensions (1958–1959 and 1962–1964). </p><p>She was a Member of Labour <a href="/wiki/National_Executive_Committee_of_the_Labour_Party" title="National Executive Committee of the Labour Party">National Executive Committee</a>, and Labour Party Chairman in 1957. In the <a href="/wiki/British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="British House of Commons">House of Commons</a>, she was Chairman of Select Committee on Overseas Aid in 1969–70. She was an early British delegate to the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Europe" title="Council of Europe">Council of Europe</a>, and is believed to be the only woman parliamentary Representative - among 101 accredited in total, from twelve nations - to attend the very first sitting of the Council's <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Assembly_of_the_Council_of_Europe" title="Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe">Parliamentary Assembly</a> in Strasbourg in August 1949, alongside <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> among others.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://pace.coe.int/en/members/88/herbison">[1]</a> </p><p>Herbison said in 1951, "Difficult times always hit women harder than men ... There’s no five-day week for women, and when there's shopping to do on a wet Saturday – and the children are cross, and then on top of it all the grocer says, 'Halfpenny up on this' or 'Penny up on that' – well, it sometimes seems almost unbearable, doesn’t it?".<sup id="cite_ref-HS_2022_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HS_2022-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peggy_Herbison&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A lifelong member of the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Scotland" title="Church of Scotland">Church of Scotland</a>, from 1970 to 1971 she became the first woman to serve as <a href="/wiki/Lord_High_Commissioner_to_the_General_Assembly_of_the_Church_of_Scotland" title="Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland">Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland</a>. </p><p>In 1970 the University of Glasgow awarded her an honorary degree.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1970 she was named 'Scotswoman of the Year'.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She died of cancer on 29 December 1996 at St Mary's Hospital, Lanark.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Peggy_Herbison&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Work_and_Pensions#Minister_of_Social_Insurance/National_Insurance_(1944–1953)" title="Secretary of State for Work and Pensions">Minister of Pensions and National Insurance</a> </b><br />1964–1966 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Herself</div><i><b>as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Social_Security_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Social Security (UK)">Minister of Social Security</a> </b></i> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">Herself</div><i><b>as Minister of Pensions and National Insurance </b></i> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Social_Security_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Social Security (UK)">Minister of Social Security</a> </b><br />1966–1967 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" 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