High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eirene Lloyd White, Baroness White, née Jones (7 November 1909, Belfast 23 December 1999, Abergavenny) was a British Labour politician and journalist. The daughter of Dr Thomas Jones, commonly known as "TJ", a noted civil servant, educationalist and friend of the establishment, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Somerville College, Oxford, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She spent a year in Heidelberg before working for the New York Public Library. Back in England, she studied housing policies and the problems of the homeless.