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Gillian Shephard (Gillian Patricia Watts) was born on 22 January, 1940 in Cromer, England, is a British Conservative politician. Discover Gillian Shephard's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 22 January 1940
Birthday 22 January
Birthplace Cromer, England
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1940

Gillian Patricia Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold, (née Watts; born 22 January 1940), is a British Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk from 1987 to 2005.

Shephard served as a Cabinet Minister, and is now Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers.

Shephard is currently the chair of the Alumni Association of Oxford University.

1963

She became a schoolteacher and then worked as an Education Inspector for Norfolk County Council from 1963 to 1975.

1975

From 1975 to 1977 she worked for Anglia Television.

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.

1987

She was elected to Parliament in 1987, and became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Peter Lilley in 1988.

1989

She was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Department of Social Security in 1989, and then in 1990, Minister of State at HM Treasury.

1990

In 1990, she was given the additional role of Deputy Chairman of the Party.

1992

After the 1992 general election, she was appointed Secretary of State for Employment, then Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1993.

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."

1994

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.

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.

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.

1997

She remained in this position until the 1997 general election.

1999

She returned to the backbenches in 1999 and stepped down from the House of Commons at the 2005 general election.

2000

Her memoirs Shephard's Watch: Illusions of Power in British Politics were published in 2000.

2005

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

She is currently Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers.

2013

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.

2015

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.

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.

She was educated at North Walsham Girls' High School and St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she graduated with an MA in Modern Languages.

2017

She was Deputy Chair of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission until 2017, when she resigned in frustration with Prime Minister Theresa May's lack of action.