Angela Watkinson
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Dame Angela Watkinson DBE MP |
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| Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury | |
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In office 11 May 2010 – 4 September 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Succeeded by | Anne Milton |
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Member of Parliament for Hornchurch and Upminster Upminster (2001–2010) |
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Assumed office 7 June 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Keith Darvill |
| Majority | 16,371 (30.7%) |
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18 November 1941 Leytonstone, Essex, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Roy Watkinson |
| Religion | United Reformed Church |
| Website | www.angelawatkinson.org.uk |
Dame Angela Eileen Watkinson, DBE (née Ellicott; 18 November 1941) is a British politician. She is Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornchurch and Upminster, and was first elected in 2001 to the earlier seat of Upminster, beating Keith Darvill who had taken the seat from the Conservatives in 1997. She was re-elected with an increased majorities in 2005 and 2010.
Born in Leytonstone, Essex, she attended Wanstead County High School (a grammar school, now Wanstead High School) on Redbridge Lane West in Wanstead. In 1989, she gained a Public Administration Higher National Certificate from Anglia Higher Education College. She worked for the Bank of New South Wales (since 1982 the Westpac Banking Corporation) from 1958–64. She became a secretary of a Special School in Essex in 1976, helping physically handicapped children with riding lessons. In 1988, she became a clerk to a school governing body, then committee clerk to Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council from 1988–89. From 1989–94, she was a committee manager for Basildon District Council. She was a councillor for Havering London Borough Council from 1994–98, and on Essex County Council from 1997–2001.
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