Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger [SEP] date of death
Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger
Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger CH (14 April 1897 – 11 July 1988) was a British sociologist and criminologist. She was one of the first four life peers appointed under the Life Peerages Act 1958. She was President of the British Sociological Association from 1959 to 1964.
Early life.
Wootton was born Barbara Adam in Cambridge. She had two older brothers. Her father, James Adam (1860–1907) was a classicist and tutor at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
End ward of Cambridge (1904–15) reinforced her conviction that it was essential for women to have the vote if things were to change. Adela Adam, a classicist at Girton College and mother of Barbara Wootton (later Baroness Wootton of Abinger), persuaded Clara to join the Cambridge Women's Suffrage Association. This was a branch of the constitutional, non-militant National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), the president of which was the veteran suffragist, Millicent Garrett Fawcett.
Clara proved to be a first