Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams,Baroness Williams of Crosby,was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP),she served in the Labour cabinet from 1974 to 1979. She was one of the "Gang of Four" rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981 and,at the time of her retirement from politics,was a Liberal Democrat.
Stevenage is a large town and borough in Hertfordshire,England,about 27 miles (43 km) north of London. Stevenage is east of junctions 7 and 8 of the A1(M),between Letchworth Garden City to the north and Welwyn Garden City to the south. In 1946,Stevenage was designated the United Kingdom's first New Town under the New Towns Act.
Terence Anthony Gordon Davis is a British Labour Party politician and businessman. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromsgrove from 1971 to 1974,and for Birmingham Stechford and its successor seat,Birmingham Hodge Hill,from 1979 to 2004. He was then Secretary General of the Council of Europe from 2004 to 2009.
Bernard Richard Braine,Baron Braine of Wheatley,PC was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 42 years,from 1950 to 1992,representing constituencies in Essex.
Jacqueline Anne Harkness Lait is a British Conservative Party politician and former Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituencies of Hastings and Rye (1992–1997) and Beckenham (1997–2010).
Daphne Barbara Follett is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stevenage from 1997 to 2010. During this time she held several parliamentary and ministerial positions.
Jeanette Mary Fitzsimons was a New Zealand politician and environmentalist. She was the co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 1995 to 2009,and was a Member of Parliament from 1996 to 2010.
Bernard Wasserstein is a British and American historian.
William Allen Jowitt,1st Earl Jowitt,was a British Liberal Party,National Labour and then Labour Party politician and lawyer who served as Lord Chancellor under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.
Colin McIver Campbell is a Scottish politician and military historian. He was a Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for West of Scotland region from 1999 to 2003. Campbell is a former history teacher and secondary school headmaster.
St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School is an academically selective Roman Catholic state grammar school on Langley Road,Slough. It was previously designated as a Humanities College. The student body is divided into four different houses - Annay,Clairvaux,Cîteaux and La Plaine. The houses are named after various monastic houses,relating to the school's history. The school's motto is "Dieu Mon Abri",which means "God is my Shelter". The crest is a diamond,with three parallel,diagonal,swords on a blue background. The school has been given an "outstanding" by Ofsted and its recent 2017,2018 and 2019 results place it academically within the top 1% of the country.
The Saint John Henry Newman School is a Roman Catholic secondary school with academy status in Stevenage,Hertfordshire,England. In its most recent Ofsted inspection it was classed as a good school and the diocesan report,assessing quality of Catholic education,classed it as outstanding. It converted to academy status on 1 March 2012.
The Dagenham by-election,in Dagenham,on 9 June 1994 was held after Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Bryan Gould resigned the seat. A safe Labour seat,it was won by Judith Church,who retained the seat in 1997.
Veronica Mary Tutt Hardstaff Billings is a British politician,who has served as a City councillor in Sheffield and as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). A member of the Labour Party,she is on the left of the party.
Sara Parkin is a Scottish nurse and political activist. She started her working life as a nurse in Edinburgh but rose to prominence as a green political activist during and after the 1989 European Parliament election,in which the UK Green Party gained 15% of the votes but no seats. She resigned from the party in 1992,at odds with the party's anti-leadership stance,and went on to found the Forum for the Future with Jonathon Porritt and Paul Ekins. Her current campaigning focus is sustainability literacy as an essential outcome of formal education,especially in universities and colleges. She lives in Hackney,East London.
Hertford and Stevenage was a parliamentary constituency in Hertfordshire,which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from February 1974 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
Elections to Stevenage Council were held on 6 May 2010. One third of the council stood for election;the seats which were last contested in 2006. The election saw the Conservative Party gain a further 3 seats.
Christine Elizabeth Hardman is a retired British Anglican bishop and former Lord Spiritual. She served as Archdeacon of Lewisham,2001–2008;Archdeacon of Lewisham &Greenwich,2008–2012;and Bishop of Newcastle,2015–2021.
Loveday Elizabeth Trevenen Jenkin is a British politician,biologist and language campaigner. She has been a member of Cornwall Council since 2011,and currently serves as councillor for Crowan,Sithney and Wendron.
