Yn yr 1950au, bu Boothroyd yn ysgrifennydd i'r ASau Llafur Barbara Castle [6] a Geoffrey de Freitas. [7] Ym 1960, teithiodd i'r Unol Daleithiau i weld ymgyrch Kennedy . Dechreuodd weithio yn Washington DC fel cynorthwydd deddfwriaethol i Gyngreswr Americanaidd, Silvio Conte. Dychwelodd i Lundain ac wedyn parhaodd â'i gwaith fel ysgrifennydd i wleidyddion Llafur, yn gynnwys Harry Walston . [8] Ym 1965, cafodd ei hethol i sedd ar Gyngor Bwrdeistref Hammersmith, lle y bu hyd 1968. [9] [10] Hardy Amies, designer by appointment, dresses her for the part. She uses a heritage fund to buy a 'neoclassical diamond tiara', an ersatz crown to wear to state dinners. 'When I retired, it was sent to Wartski's, the Queen's jeweller, to sell at a handsome profit.' Selected Honorands". 22 February 2013. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017 . Retrieved 29 July 2017. Prime Minister leads tributes to "remarkable" speaker Baroness Betty Boothroyd at funeral". ITV News. 29 March 2023 . Retrieved 29 March 2023. House of Commons Speaker's Residence". C-SPAN. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019 . Retrieved 15 February 2019.

St Edmund's College – University of Cambridge". st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 10 September 2018 . Retrieved 10 September 2018. Boothroyd was made an Honorary Fellow of the SocietyofLightandLighting (Hon. FSLL) in 2009, [30] [31] and she was an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford, and of StEdmund'sCollege,Cambridge. [32] She was Patron of the JoRichardsonCommunitySchool in Dagenham, East London, and President of NBFA Assisting the Elderly. She was, for a period, Vice President of the IndustryandParliamentTrust. Cafodd Boothroyd ei geni yn Dewsbury, Swydd Efrog, yn 1929, yn ferch i Ben Archibald Boothroyd (1886-1948) a'i ail wraig Mary ( née Butterfield, 1901-1982), y ddau yn weithwyr tecstilau. Cafodd ei addysg yn ysgolion y cyngor ac aeth ymlaen i astudio yng Ngholeg Masnach a Chelf Dewsbury ( Coleg Kirklees). Rhwng 1946 a 1952, bu'n gweithio fel dawnsiwr, fel aelod o gwmni dawnsio Tiller Girls, [4] gan ymddangos am gyfnod byr yn y Paladiwm Llundain. [5] a b c Morris, Sophie (27 February 2023). "Baroness Boothroyd, first female Speaker of the House of Commons, has died aged 93". Sky News . Retrieved 27 February 2023. Langdon, Julia (27 February 2023). "Lady Boothroyd obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 29 March 2023.

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Honorary degrees". 21 July 1995. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017 . Retrieved 29 July 2017. Her appointment was contested by Conservative MP John Brooke, but Baroness Boothroyd won a vote by 372 votes to 238.

Boothroyd was not an innovative speaker. She opposed the changes in parliamentary hours that were subsequently introduced after her term of office and she suffered some criticism for failing, in the opinion of some radical MPs, to help the Commons update its role – notably by refusing to allow women MPs to breastfeed in the chamber during debates.Rentoul, John (4 April 2019). "The House of Commons is so divided on Brexit it has had its first tied vote for decades". The Independent . Retrieved 3 May 2022.