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Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, CH, PC ( née Catlin; 27 July 1930 – 12 April 2021) was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), she served in the Labour cabinet from 1974 to 1979.
Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby [39] 1 February 1993 11 February 2016 (Retired) Life peeress Conservative: Doreen Miller, Baroness Miller of Hendon: 14 October 1993 21 June 2014 Life peeress Conservative: Patricia Rawlings, Baroness Rawlings [40] 5 October 1994 Life peeress Liberal Democrats: Susan Thomas, Baroness Thomas of ...
Susan Frances Maria Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford PC (née McElroy; [ 2] born 16 May 1967) [ 3][ 4][ 5] is a Conservative life peer who served as the Chief Whip of the House of Lords and Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms between 2022 and 2024. [ 6] In March 2022 she was made a member of the Privy Council. [ 7]
Sixty-six women have been appointed to positions in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, with three female Prime Ministers serving in cabinet.Since, by convention, members of the cabinet must be a member of either the House of Commons or House of Lords, [1] the Prime Minister could not appoint women to the cabinet until the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 allowed women to stand for ...
Baroness Williams. Baroness Williams may refer to: Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby (1930–2021), British politician and academic. Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford (born 1967), British Conservative politician.
Stratford-upon-Avon ( /- ˈeɪvən / ), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, [ 2] in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, 91 miles (146 km) north-west of London, 22 miles (35 km) south-east of Birmingham and 8 miles ...
The Bacon Theatre administrates the Open-air Theatre Festival at the Tuckwell Amphitheatre each year. The Tuckwell Amphitheatre is a stone-built open-air venue built in the 1930s, [13] and is currently licensed to hold 300. The Open-air Theatre Festival was piloted in 2004 and is held over two weeks in July and August each year.
The former cabinet minister and Liberal Democrat peer, Baroness Williams of Crosby, has died aged 90.