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词条 Gillian Shephard
释义

  1. Early life and career

  2. Ministerial career

  3. In opposition

  4. Life peerage

  5. Arms

  6. Honours

  7. References

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|office = Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
|leader = William Hague
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|office3 = Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Employment
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|office8 = Member of Parliament
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|death_place =
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|alma_mater = St Hilda's College, Oxford
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Gillian Patricia Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold, PC, DL (née Watts; born 22 January 1940) is an English Conservative politician. She was the Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk[1] and served as a Cabinet Minister, and is now Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers.

Baroness Shephard is currently Deputy Chair of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission She is the chair of the Alumni Association of Oxford University and was the chair of the Council of the Institute of Education until 2015.

Early life and career

The daughter of Reginald and Bertha Watts, she was born in Cromer, Norfolk, and spent her early years in Mundesley on Sea, her father being a haulier with a small garage at the western end of Water Lane. She was educated at North Walsham Girls' High School and St Hilda's College, Oxford,[2] from which she gained an MA in Modern Languages. She became a schoolteacher and then worked as an Education Inspector for Norfolk County Council from 1963 to 1975. From 1975 to 1977 she worked for Anglia Television. She was elected to Parliament in 1987, and became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Peter Lilley in 1988.[1] She was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Department of Social Security in 1989,[3] and then in 1990, Minister of State at HM Treasury.[4] In 1990 she was given the additional role of Deputy Chairman of the Party.[3] She married Thomas Shephard on 27 December 1975 and has two stepsons.

Ministerial career

After the 1992 general election, she was appointed Secretary of State for Employment,[1] then Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1993.[3] She moved to Secretary of State for Education in 1994, and stayed at the department when the Department for Employment merged into it in 1996.[3] She remained in this position until the 1997 general election.[4]

Gillian Shephard provided considerable information regarding her role as Secretary of State for Education in interviews conducted by Brian Sherratt in October 1994 and March 1996 [5]

In opposition

After the defeat of the Conservatives, William Hague made her Shadow Leader of the House of Commons and later Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.[4] She returned to the backbenches in 1999[6] and stepped down from the House of Commons at the 2005 general election.[4] Her memoirs Shephard's Watch: Illusions of Power in British Politics were published in 2000.[6]

In 2013 following the death of Margaret Thatcher, Shephard published a memoir, The Real Iron Lady, of her time working with the former prime minister.[7]

Life peerage

On 13 May 2005 it was announced that she would be created a life peer,[8] and on 21 June 2005 the peerage was created as Baroness Shephard of Northwold, of Northwold in the County of Norfolk.[9]

She is currently Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers.[10] She is also currently Deputy Chair of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission[11]

Arms

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|image =
|image size =
|notes =
|year_adopted = 2006
|coronet = Coronet of a Baroness
|escutcheon = Quarterly Azure and Or three pairs of Ears of Barley in pale Or each pair fesswise leaved and with slips inwards and conjoined all counterchanged
|supporters = On either side a Hare Azure gorged with a Coronet attached thereto a Chain reflexed over the back Or
|badge = A Hare's Face Azure in the mouth a pair of Ears of Wheat fesswise leaved and with slips inwards and conjoined Or
|motto = SERVO ERGO SUM
|symbolism = These Armorial Bearings reflect rural Norfolk with blue for the Conservative party.
}}

Honours

  • She was appointed as a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1992, giving He the Honorific Title "The Right Honourable" and after Ennoblement the Post Nominal Letters "PC" for life.
  • She is a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk, giving her the post nominal letters "DL" for life.
  • On 21 June 2005 She was awarded a Life Peerage the peerage was created as Baroness Shephard of Northwold, of Northwold in the County of Norfolk. This entitled her to a seat in the House of Lords where she sits with the Conservative Party Benches.
  • In 2009 She was awarded the Legion of Honour by France.
  • She holds Honorary Fellowships from St Hilda's College, Oxford, Queen Mary University of London, and Royal Veterinary College.
  • In July 2018 She was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) from the University of East Anglia.[12]

References

1. ^{{cite web| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2122617.stm | title = Gillian Shephard | accessdate = 5 December 2010 | date = 17 October 2002 | publisher = BBC News Online}}
2. ^{{cite web| url = http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=90634§ioncode=26 | title = Shephard's scars | accessdate = 5 December 2010 | date = 20 September 1996 | publisher = Times Higher Education}}
3. ^{{cite web| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3664496.stm | title = Shephard plans to step down as MP | accessdate = 5 December 2010 | date = 17 September 2004 | publisher = BBC News Online}}
4. ^{{cite web| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4544507.stm | title = Full list of new life peers | accessdate = 5 December 2010 | date = 13 May 2005 | publisher = BBC News Online}}
5. ^Radical Educational Policies and Conservative Secretaries of State, Ribbins, P and Sherratt, B, Cassell, 1997, pp 200-225
6. ^{{cite web| url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hague-was-wrong-to-rubbish-old-guard-says-major-loyalist-707209.html | title = Hague was wrong to rubbish old guard, says Major loyalist | accessdate = 5 December 2010 | date = 25 July 2000 | publisher = The Independent}}
7. ^{{cite book|author=Gillian Shephard|title=The Real Iron Lady: Working with Margaret Thatcher|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQOuAwAAQBAJ|date=18 March 2013|publisher=Biteback Publishing|isbn=978-1-84954-562-4}}
8. ^{{cite web| url = http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/158/158653_new_peers_make_labour_giant_in_lords.html | title = New peers make Labour giant in Lords | accessdate = 5 December 2010 | date = 13 May 2005 | publisher = Manchester Evening News}}
9. ^{{London Gazette |issue=57684 |date=24 June 2005 |page=8245}}
10. ^{{cite web| url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3105755.ece | title = All courtesy titles could go in reform of honours | accessdate = 5 December 2010 | date = 29 December 2007 | publisher = The Times}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-appointments-to-the-social-mobility-and-child-poverty-commission.|title=New appointments to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission - GOV.UK|website=www.gov.uk}}
12. ^http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2018-07-16/honorary-degrees-to-be-given-to-three-former-cabinet-ministers/
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