 May Blood, Baroness Blood

May Blood, Baroness Blood, MBE (born 26 May 1938) is a former member of the British House of Lords, where she was a Labour peer from 31 July 1999 to 4 September 2018.Blood was born and raised in Belfast and worked in a linen mill from 1952-89 where she soon became an active member of the Transport and General Workers Union and a shop steward.