Gillian Shephard
South West Norfolk | |
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| In office 11 June 1987 – 11 April 2005 | |
| Preceded by | Paul Hawkins |
| Succeeded by | Christopher Fraser |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Gillian Patricia Watts 22 January 1940 Cromer, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse |
Thomas Shephard (m. 1975) |
| Alma mater | St Hilda's College, Oxford |
| a. ^ Shephard served as Education Secretary from 1994 to 1995. In July 1995, Shephard took over the duties of the former role of Secretary of State for Employment, held by Michael Portillo until the role was abolished. Shephard then became Education and Employment Secretary. | |
Gillian Patricia Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold,
Shephard is currently the chair of the Alumni Association of Oxford University. She was the chair of the Council of the Institute of Education until 2015 and deputy commissioner of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission until 2017.
Early life and career
The daughter of Reginald and Bertha Watts, she was born in
She became a schoolteacher and then worked as an Education Inspector for
Family
She married Thomas Shephard on 27 December 1975. She has two stepsons, including econometrician Neil Shephard FBA, Professor of Economics and Statistics at Harvard University.[citation needed]
Ministerial career
After the
Shephard was one of two women promoted to John Major's Cabinet in 1992; the other was Virginia Bottomley. The two believed the media was looking for stories of Ministerial "catfights" and made a pact to work together, despite differences in backgrounds and working styles. In an interview, Shephard said, "We said that we would never give anybody the chance to say that we were criticising the other. We would be supportive; end of. And we were."[5]
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 for his book on the agenda for educational reform which the Conservative Party had developed since 1979.[6]
In opposition
After the defeat of the Conservatives,
In 2013 following the
Life peerage
On 13 May 2005 it was announced that she would be created a
She is currently Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers.
Arms
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Honours
- She was appointed as a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1992, giving her the Honorific Title "The Right Honourable" and after Ennoblement the Post Nominal Letters"PC" for life.
- She was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Norfolk on 23 July 2003, giving her the post nominal letters "DL" for life.[16] on 22 January 2015 She was moved to the Retired List upon reaching the Mandatory retirementage of 75.
- 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 PartyBenches.
- In 2009 she was awarded the Legion of Honour by France.
- She holds Honorary Fellowships from St Hilda's College, Oxford,[17] Queen Mary University of London (2008),[18] and the Royal Veterinary College.
- In July 2018 she was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) from the University of East Anglia.[19][20]
References
- ^ a b c "Gillian Shephard". BBC News Online. 17 October 2002. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
- ^ "Shephard's scars". Times Higher Education. 20 September 1996. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Shephard plans to step down as MP". BBC News Online. 17 September 2004. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Full list of new life peers". BBC News Online. 13 May 2005. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
- OCLC 1084655208.)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link - ^ Radical Educational Policies and Conservative Secretaries of State, Ribbins, P and Sherratt, B, Cassell, 1997, pp. 200-225.
- ^ a b "Hague was wrong to rubbish old guard, says Major loyalist". The Independent. 25 July 2000. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
- ISBN 978-1-84954-562-4.
- ^ "New peers make Labour giant in Lords". Manchester Evening News. 13 May 2005. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
- ^ "No. 57684". The London Gazette. 24 June 2005. p. 8245.
- ^ "All courtesy titles could go in reform of honours". The Times. 29 December 2007. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
- ^ "New appointments to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk.
- ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 4350.
- ^ "Arms and the Woman" (PDF). The Heraldry Society. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
- ^ "Deputy Lieutenant Commissions Lieutenancy of the County of Norfolk". The London Gazette. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ "The Rt Hon Baroness Gillian Shephard of Northwold DL - Modern Languages, 1958". St Hilda's College University of Oxford. 29 January 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ "Fellows". Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ "Honorary degrees to be given to three former cabinet ministers".
- ^ "Honorary Graduates of UEA 2018". The University of East Anglia. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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