Alice Mary Boase MBE (23 March 1910 – 1999) was a Ugandan politician. She and Barbara Saben were appointed to the Legislative Council in 1954, becoming its first female members.

Biography

Boase was born 23 March 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] Boase died in Haywards Heath in 1999.^[1]

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

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