Shirley Williams

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Shirley Williams was a prominent British politician and academic, known as a leading Labour and later Social Democratic Party figure and a key advocate for comprehensive education reform.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf British politician
academic
human
life peer
birthDate 1930-07-27
birthPlace Chelsea, London, England
causeOfDeath natural causes
coFounded Social Democratic Party (UK)
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
deathDate 2021-04-11
educatedAt Columbia University
Somerville College, Oxford NERFINISHED
St Paul’s Girls’ School
employer Harvard University
John F. Kennedy School of Government
familyName Williams
father George Catlin
fullName Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams
givenName Shirley
honorificPrefix The Right Honourable
memberOf House of Commons of the United Kingdom
House of Lords of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED
memberOfPoliticalParty Labour Party (UK)
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Social Democratic Party (UK)
mother Vera Brittain
notableFor advocacy of comprehensive education in the United Kingdom
co-founding the Social Democratic Party (UK)
notableWork A Job to Live
Climbing the Bookshelves
God and Caesar
Politics Is for People
occupation academic
author
politician
university teacher
positionHeld Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords
Member of Parliament for Hertford and Stevenage
Member of Parliament for Hitchin
Minister of State for Education and Science of the United Kingdom
Paymaster General
Secretary of State for Education and Science of the United Kingdom
Shadow Home Secretary
religion Roman Catholicism
spouse Bernard Williams
Richard Neustadt
title Baroness Williams of Crosby
workLocation Cambridge, Massachusetts
London


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