Peggy Fenner

Who is Peggy Fenner?

Dame Peggy Edith Fenner, DBE is a British Conservative Party politician.

Fenner was elected MP for Rochester and Chatham at the 1970 general election. She lost the seat at the October 1974 election to the Labour candidate Robert Bean, but regained it by defeating Bean at the 1979 election.

At the 1983 election the Rochester and Chatham seat was abolished and Dame Peggy was elected MP for the new constituency of Medway. She continued to hold the seat for the next fourteen years, being re-elected at the 1987 and 1992 general elections, until she lost it at the 1997 election to Bob Marshall-Andrews.

Upon the death of Baroness Jeger in 2007, Fenner became the oldest living woman to have served as an MP in the United Kingdom.