Bertha McDougall
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Bertha McDougall, OBE was the interim Commissioner for Victims and Survivors of the Troubles. She was appointed in October 2005 by
Peter Hain Peter Gerald Hain, Baron Hain (born 16 February 1950), is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2007 to 2008 and twice as Secretary of State ...
to look at key areas relating to services for victims, funding arrangements in relation to services and grants paid to victims and survivors groups and individual victims and survivors. Mrs. McDougall is a police widow who lives in
Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdom ...
. Her husband Lindsay, a civil servant and part-time Royal Ulster Constabulary Reservist, was shot dead by the Irish National Liberation Army in January 1981 while on duty in Belfast. She is chairman of the victims' group, Forgotten Families, which was set up to lobby on behalf of pre-1982 widows. She is also a member of the Phoenix Energy for Children Charitable Trust. Bertha McDougall was educated at
Methodist College Belfast God with us , established = 1865 , type = Voluntary grammar , religion = Interdenominational , principal = Jenny Lendrum , chair_label = Chairwoman , chair = Revd. Dr Janet Unsworth , founder ...
. She was a school teacher at the Fane Street Primary School in Belfast for 15 years before being seconded to the Northern Ireland Council for Educational Development, where she is co-ordinator for EMU (Education for Mutual Understanding) in cross community projects. Her last position was as Principal Officer with the Council for Curriculum Examinations and Assessment (CCEA). Most recently she worked with the Council for the Curriculum Examinations and Assessment.RUC/GC Museum/Foundation


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Homepage of the Interim Commissioner for Victims and Survivors
{{DEFAULTSORT:McDougall, Bertha Living people Civil servants from Belfast Officers of the Order of the British Empire Year of birth missing (living people) People educated at Methodist College Belfast