Alice Boase

Alice Mary Boase MBE (born 1910) was a Ugandan politician. She and Barbara Saben were appointed to the Legislative Council in 1954, becoming its first female members.

Alice Boase
Nominated Member of the Legislative Council
In office
1954–1956
Personal details
Born1910
Dublin, United Kingdom

Biography

Boase was born in 1910 in Dublin.[1] When she was two her parents moved to Nyasaland, after her father Charles had been appointed as a magistrate. The family moved to Uganda when Charles was appointed Chief Justice in 1921. In 1929 Alice married the physician Arthur Boase (1901–1986);[2] the couple went on to have ten children.[3]

She served as president of the Uganda Council of Women from 1953 to 1955,[4] and sat on the board of the Uganda Club.[5] Boase and her husband both became members of Kampala municipal council.[5] In 1954 Boase and Barbara Saben were appointed to the Legislative Council, becoming its first female members.[4] She left Uganda in 1956 when Arthur began working at Saint John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem.[3] In 1969 they retired to Sussex in the United Kingdom.[2]

Her brother John had been appointed Chief Justice of Uganda in 1952, and became Speaker of the Legislative Council in 1958. In 2004 she published a memoir, When The Sun Never Set - A Family's Life In The British Empire.[3]

References
  1. BOASE, Alice Mary, Mrs Europeans in East Africa
  2. Boase, Arthur Joseph (1901 - 1986) Royal College of Surgeons
  3. When The Sun Never Set - A Family's Life In The British Empire The British Empire
  4. Aili Mari Tripp (2012) Women and Politics in Uganda p39
  5. 1911-1950 Kampala Club
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