-- to toast her sex's most famous triumph in Bermuda.

Education Minister in the House of Lords, Baroness Blatch will join the celebration of women winning voting rights.

She comes at the invitation of the Committee for the 50th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage in Bermuda.

The group, which is made up of women's civic organisations, is headed by Dr.

Marjorie Bean.

Lady Blatch, a Privy Counsellor and Education Minister following Britain's 1992 general election, will stay at Government House.

On Friday she will visit the House of Assembly with Education Minister the Hon. Clarence Terceira.

She will unveil a portrait of Mrs. Hilda Aitken -- one of the first two women elected to the House at the 1948 General Election.

It will represent a historic moment as the portrait is to remain in the Sessions House.

The next day, Lady Blatch, who became a life peer in 1987 after serving on the European Economic and Social Committee, will be guest speaker at a 50th anniversary banquet at Sonesta Beach Hotel.

The $75 tickets have been on sale since Monday at the Visitor's Service Bureau and Bermuda Commercial Bank, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

On May 30, Lady Blatch, who served in the Women's Royal Air Force during the 1950s, will unveil a plaque at the Somerset Police Station.

This was the site of a notable battle for some suffragettes and their leader Gladys Misick Morrell.

It was 1930 and the suffragettes had refused to pay "taxation without representation''.

Instead of locking them up, the Police seized a prized item of furniture from each and auctioned it.

Supporters of the movement, however, bid enough to buy them back for their owners.

Lady Blatch, a former Heritage Minister and Under Secretary of State in the Department of Environment, will conclude her trip by addressing an 8 p.m. free forum on education at Bermuda College.

The Baroness leaves Bermuda on May 31.

Baroness Blatch.