Alix Kilroy

Dame Alix Hester Marie Kilroy, Lady Meynell, DBE (1903–1999)  ta kasance ɗaya daga cikin mata biyu na farko da suka shiga matakin gudanarwa na Ma'aikatar Gwamnati ta hanyar jarrabawa (a 1925).

An ba ta teburi a Hukumar Kasuwanci, inda ta hau matsayin Mataimakiyar Sakatare kuma inda ta yi aiki na tsawon shekaru 30 (banda ɗan gajeren lokacin da ta yi a sabuwar Hukumar Monopolies ). Ta yi ritaya a shekarar 1955. Ta yi bikin cika shekaru 95 da haihuwa ta hanyar buga sabon littafi: What Grandmother Said (wanda aka buga a watan Fabrairun 1998), shi ne na ƙarshe a cikin rubuce-rubucenta. Tarihin rayuwarta na 1988, Jami'in Gwamnati, Mace Mai Zaman Kanta, ya zana ci gabanta ta hanyar gwamnati.

 Shekarun farko 
"AK" ko "Bay" kamar yadda abokai suka san ta, 'yar Kwamandan Surgeon Sojan Ruwa ce, wacce ta yi karatu a Kwalejin 'Yan Mata ta Malvern da kuma Kwalejin Somerville, Oxford, inda ta karanta Modern Greats . Dangantakarta ta daban (ba tare da fa'idar aure ba har zuwa 1946) da Francis Meynell, mawaƙi, mai tsara littattafai kuma wanda ya kafa Nonesuch Press, ba ta da ɗa, duk da cewa ta sadaukar da kanta ga babban dangin mijinta na 'yan'uwa maza da mata. Aure a shekarar 1946 an ba shi lakabin "Madaukaki", kodayake a zahiri, an ba shi wannan girmamawa ta DBE a shekarar 1949. 

A ƙarshen Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, ma'auratan sun sami "Cobbold's Mill" tsakanin Lavenham da Hadleigh, Suffolk, kuma a can, fiye da shekaru 20, sun haɗu suna buɗe wa abokai da yawa gida, har zuwa lokacin ritaya, suna neman ayyukansu.  Ita da mijinta sun fara noma a can. Ta kuma kasance mai fafutukar yaƙi da Suez da kuma gurguzu na farko bayan yaƙi. Ta kasance shugabar Majalisar Ba da Shawara kan Iskar Gas ta Kudu maso Gabas daga 1956.  Daga baya, za ta zama memba na SDP, kuma a ƙarshen zaɓen 1997 ta ƙarfafa abokanta su zaɓi Lib-Dem maimakon Labour bisa dalilin cewa wannan zai iya kawo ƙarshen mulkin Conservative a Suffolk South ; duk da haka, ya yi akasin haka. 

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1999
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1903