Iris Le Feuvre

Iris Le Feuvre
MBE
Born
Iris Renouf

(1928-10-09)9 October 1928
St Martin, Jersey
Died2 August 2022(2022-08-02) (aged 93)

Iris Le Feuvre MBE (née Renouf, 9 October 1928 – 2 August 2022) was a Jersey politician who served in the States of Jersey and was active in community work in Jersey.

Biography

Iris Medora Le Feuvre was born in the Parish of Saint Martin, Jersey. She was educated at St Peter Elementary School, and then at the States Intermediate School.

During the German Occupation of Jersey (1940-1945), her family hid a Russian prisoner of war, and fed and sheltered him for the duration.[1]

She was employed as a bookkeeper between 1945 and 1948 when she met and married Eric G. Le Feuvre, a St Lawrence farmer.

A committed Methodist, she helped with the inception of the Communicare project.

States of Jersey

She was elected Deputy for the Parish of St Lawrence from 1978 to 1981, and 1984 to 1999 was Connétable of St. Lawrence. She was the first woman to be elected Connétable.[2][3]

During this time she was President of the Education Committee, and oversaw the replacement of the decaying d'Hautree School with the building of Haute Vallée School.

Retirement

She retired from the States in 1999, but remained active in community work.

In 2002, she received an MBE for services to the community in Jersey.[4] In 2003, she headed a group producing a report on Jersey's ageing population.[5] In the same year, she also headed the Co-ordinating Committee for the Eradication of Poverty in Jersey, which noted that 2,000 young people were living in cramped and inappropriate accommodation.[6]

In 2005, she was the fifth person voted by Islanders to be the subject of the Jersey Heritage Trust's portrait of a Jersey citizen.[7]

In 2006, she supported the appeal by Save Jersey's Heritage to save Plémont headland for development, stating that "As Islanders our coastline defines us and as its custodians it is our duty to protect it for those yet to come."[8]

Death

She died on 2 August 2022, aged 93.[2][3][9]

References

  1. ↑ "BBC - Family History - WDYTYA? Series One: Celebrity Gallery". Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Jersey remembers first woman constable". BBC News. 18 August 2022. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  3. 1 2 Morris, Michael (4 August 2022). "Tributes to Jersey's first 'Madame Le Connétable'". Jersey Evening Post. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  4. ↑ "In Depth - New Year Honours - MBEs D - H". BBC News. 31 December 2001. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "More nursing homes needed". BBC News. September 2003. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Poverty 'hitting the young'. A GROWING number of young people in the Island are facing poverty and hardship, according to a report published today". Jersey Evening Post. 24 July 2003. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  7. ↑ Crosby, Alasdair (16 April 2005). "Former Constable gets heritage portrait vote". Jersey Evening Post. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  8. ↑ Plémont: Last chance to have your say... savejerseysheritage.org.
  9. ↑ "Moving service honours an islander "ahead of her time"". Bailiwick Express. Retrieved 16 October 2022.

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