Estelle Morris
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Morris of Yardley PC |
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| Minister of State for the Arts | |
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In office 13 June 2003 – 5 May 2005 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Blackstone |
| Succeeded by | David Lammy (Culture) |
| Secretary of State for Education and Skills | |
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In office 8 June 2001 – 24 October 2002 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | David Blunkett (Education and Employment) |
| Succeeded by | Charles Clarke |
| Minister of State for Schools | |
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In office 18 July 1998 – 8 June 2001 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Stephen Byers |
| Succeeded by | Stephen Timms |
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Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley |
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In office 10 April 1992 – 11 April 2005 |
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| Preceded by | David Bevan |
| Succeeded by | John Hemming |
| Personal details | |
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17 June 1952 Manchester, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | Coventry College of Education |
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, PC (born 17 June 1952) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley from 1992 to 2005, and served briefly in the Cabinet as Education Secretary.
Morris was born in Manchester into a political family. Her uncle, Alf Morris, was Labour MP for Manchester Wythenshawe (1964–97) and her father, Charles, was Labour MP for Manchester Openshaw (1963–83) and a Post Office union official who married Pauline Dunn. She attended Rack House primary school in Wythenshawe and Whalley Range High School in Whalley Range where she failed her English and French A-levels.
She is a graduate of the Coventry College of Education, where she gained a BEd in 1974. Morris remembered the long-serving Principal, Joan Dillon Browne (1912-2009), as "a pioneer in showing what women could achieve, long before it was fashionable to do so." Morris was a PE and Humanities teacher at the inner-city Sidney Stringer School in Coventry from 1974–92, becoming Head of Sixth Form Studies, and was a member of Warwick District Council from 1979 to 1991.
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