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She was/is married (depends if husband still alive) according to reference works as long ago as 1987, and has no children. Who's Who is normally a good source of information on spouses and children, although I am aware some subjects of that work have left out marriages that for reasons best known to themselves they preferred not to reveal in later life. According to a book on contemporary woman MPs (forgot its title, read it in 1990s), her husband was a builder and former Royal Marine.
Cloptonson (
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08:42, 19 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Quick update. Her first husband James died 2007, she has remarried since. Have just read Daily Mail online article (dated October 2012).
Cloptonson (
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09:00, 19 October 2014 (UTC)reply
I have added information from that article in the page, with linked citation. I have refrained from adding what have said above about her first husband until/unless I find sourced information.
Cloptonson (
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14:26, 19 October 2014 (UTC)reply
I notice a citation need has been raised against the statement she polled 210 votes when she stood as an Independent candidate under her maiden name at Streatham. The votes had been lifted from the table in the article on the Streatham constituency but the table in turn has no citation. Perhaps there is a need to raise a citation need there as well.
Cloptonson (
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20:37, 19 May 2016 (UTC)reply
Fib about age
When she first got into Parliament, was she not found to have trimmed a decade off her age? She would have been 56, which is long in the tooth for anyone to get selected (the Tory Candidates' List is apparently trimmed of over-50s from time to time, although in those days Associations could select whoever they liked).
Paulturtle (
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19:53, 4 January 2018 (UTC)reply
She had been adopted as candidate with a short timeframe to the general election following the resignation after conviction (May 1987) of Harvey Proctor, her predecessor as MP for Billericay. I recall reading her being interviewed by a newspaper following her election and revelations about her age lowering. She proclaimed her support for HRT at the time.
Cloptonson (
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22:21, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply