Diana Elles, Baroness Elles

An haifi Diana Newcombe a Bedford, 'ya ce ga KanalStewart Francis Newcombe da matarsa Elisabeth Chaki, wadanda ya hadu da ita a yakin da ya yi.^[2] Mahaifinta babban abokin TELawrence ne,^[2] wanda shine uban ɗan'uwanta Stuart Lawrence Newcombe (an haife shi 1920).^[3] Bayan ta yi karatu a makarantu masu zaman kansu a London, Paris da Florence, ta tafi Jami'ar London, inda ta kammala karatun digiri na farko a Faransanci da Italiyanci a 1941.^[2] A lokacin yakin duniya na biyu Elles ya yi aiki a Rundunar Sojojin Sama na Mata, ta zama Jami'in Jiragen Sama a 1944.^[2] Ta kware a ilmin lissafi an haɗa ta da Bletchley Park kuma ta kasance cikin ƙungiyar masu karya lamba.^[4] A cikin 1944 ta ɗauki kwas a cikin Jafananci a Bletchley Park wanda Arthur Cooper ya koyar da membobin RAF da WAAF.^[5]

Lincoln's Inn ya kira Elles zuwa kungiyar lauyoyi a shekara ta 1956 kuma ya yi aiki a cikin kwamitin kulawa na son rai a Kennington.^[2] Ta kasance darekta na Cibiyar Ma'aikata ta Kasa, ta bude kwalejin horarwa a 1963.^[2] A watan Yulin 1970, Elles ta zama shugabar sashin Burtaniya na Tarayyar Mata ta Tarayyar Turai kuma bayan shekaru uku na kungiyar gaba daya.^[2] A cikin 1972, Edward Heath, a wancan lokacin Firayim Minista na Burtaniya ya shirya mata zaman rayuwarta kuma a ranar 2 ga Mayu an halicce ta Baroness Elles, na birnin Westminster.^[6] Lokacin da Labour ta hau mulki a shekarar 1974, ta zauna a kan kujerun ‘yan adawa a majalisar dokokin kasar kuma ta kasance mai magana da yawun harkokin kasashen waje da Turai.

A shekarar 1977 ne Elles ta zama memba na majalisa na Royal Institute of International Affairs har zuwa shekarar 1986 kuma daga baya ya zama gwamnan Jami'ar Karatu har zuwa 1996. Ta kasance mai kula da Masana'antu da Amincewar Majalisar daga 1985 kuma a cikin 1990 ma'aikacin Caldecott Community wanda aka kafa a matsayin gidan gandun daji na London a 1911 - daga baya wurin zama (maganin warkewa) ga yara a cikin kulawa.^[7] An nada Elles a matsayin babban bencher na Lincoln's Inn a cikin 1993. Bayan ta yi ritaya daga ɗan siyasa, ta kashe lokacinta don tallafawa Cibiyar Burtaniya ta Florence.^[8]

A shekarar 1972 ne, Elles ta shiga tawagar Burtaniya zuwa babban taron Majalisar Dinkin Duniya kuma bayan shekara guda aka kara da shi a cikin karamin kwamitin Majalisar Dinkin Duniya don rigakafin wariya da kare tsiraru.^[9] An zabe ta mai ba da rahoto na musamman na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya kan Hakkokin Dan Adam a 1975.^[9] Bayan shekaru hudu, ta yi murabus daga ofishinta na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya.^[9]

Edward Heath ya tura ta zuwa Majalisar Tarayyar Turai a 1973, inda ta jagoranci ofishin kasa da kasa har zuwa 1978, lokacin da Elles ya ba da damar wakilcin Labour.^[2] A zaben farko na majalisar a shekara ta 1979, ta lashe kujerar Conservative na Thames Valley.^[10] Tare da danta James, an dawo da ita a cikin 1984 na wasu shekaru biyar.^[2] Daga 1982, ta yi aiki a matsayin mataimakiyar shugaban majalisar kuma bayan shekaru biyu, ta tsaya takarar shugabancin kasa.^[10] Lokacin da a cikin 1987, wa'adinta ya ƙare, ta tsaya takarar shugabancin ƙungiyar dimokuradiyya ta Turai, amma Christopher Prout ya ci nasara.^[2] Elles ya bar majalisar a 1989 kuma ya zama memba na kamfanin lauyoyi na Belgian Van Bael da Bellis.^[2]

A 1945 ne, ta auri Neil Patrick Moncrieff Elles; sun haifi 'ya'ya biyu, Elizabeth Rosamund (an haifi 1947) da James Edmund Moncrieff (an haifi 1949). Mijinta ya riga ta rasuwa, Elles ta mutu a ranar 17 ga watan Oktoban 2009, a lokacin tana da shekaru 88.^[11]

• The Housewife and The Common Market (1971)
• Procedural Aspects of Competition Law (1975)
• UN Human Rights of Non-Citizens (1984)
• Legal Issues of the Maastricht Treaty (1995)
• European and World Trade Law (1996)

• Portraits of Diana Elles, Baroness Elles at the National Portrait Gallery, London
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Diana Elles, Baroness Elles