Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff

Jean Kennedy McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff, FRCN, MCSP (1 April 1926 – 13 May 2012),^[1] was a British nurse and member of the House of Lords.

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (September 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the German article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Quick facts The Right HonourableThe Baroness McFarlane of LlandaffMCSP, Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal ...

The Right Honourable The Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff MCSP


Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 30 July 1979 – 13 May 2012 Life Peerage

Personal details
Born	(1926-04-01)1 April 1926 Cardiff, Wales, UK
Died	13 May 2012(2012-05-13) (aged 86)
Political party	Crossbench

Biography

McFarlane was born in Cardiff, Wales, and later trained as a nurse, a midwife, and as a health visitor before going on to pursue a successful career in nursing teaching and administration. She studied sociology at Bedford College, London.^[2] In the 1960s she participated in the Royal College of Nursing research programme "Study of Nursing Care". In 1974 she became the holder of the first Chair of Nursing at an English university (the University of Manchester) and held it until 1989.

McFarlane served on the Royal Commission on the National Health Service, 1976–79 (Chairman: Sir Alec Merrison).^[3]

A committed Christian, she served as a member of the general synod of the Church of England 1990–1994.^[4]

Remove ads

House of Lords

McFarlane was created a life peer in the House of Lords as Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff, of Llandaff in the County of South Glamorgan on 30 July 1979,^[5] in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.

McFarlane was a member of four select committees of the House of Lords. As well as being a Vice President of the League of Nurses of St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1976 she was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing.^[6] She was a trustee of numerous charities. In 2005, she was awarded the British Journal of Nursing's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Remove ads

Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff

Biography

House of Lords

Legacy

Publications

References

Wikiwand - on