Helen Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke PC |
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| British High Commissioner to Australia | |
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In office 1 September 2005 – 1 October 2009 |
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| Preceded by | The Lord Goodlad |
| Succeeded by | The Baroness Amos |
| Secretary of State for Scotland | |
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In office 24 January 2001 – 12 June 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | John Reid |
| Succeeded by | Alistair Darling |
| Minister of State for Transport | |
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In office 17 May 1999 – 29 July 1999 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | John Reid |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Macdonald of Tradeston |
| Economic Secretary to the Treasury | |
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In office 3 May 1997 – 27 July 1998 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Angela Knight |
| Succeeded by | Patricia Hewitt |
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Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts |
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In office 2 May 1997 – 11 April 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | John Reid |
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Member of Parliament for Monklands East |
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In office 30 June 1994 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | John Smith |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
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6 December 1950 Coatbridge, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Alistair Liddell |
| Children | 1 son 1 daughter |
| Alma mater | University of Strathclyde |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Helen Lawrie Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke, PC (born 6 December 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Monklands East from 1994 to 1997, and then for Airdrie and Shotts until 2005.
Liddell then became the British High Commissioner to Australia until 2009, having previously been appointed a Cabinet Minister as Secretary of State for Scotland.
On 28 May 2010, it was announced in the Dissolution Honours List that she would be created a Life Peer.
She was born Helen Lawrie Reilly, the daughter of a Catholic father and a Protestant mother, and educated at St. Patrick's Catholic High School on Muiryhall Street in Coatbridge. She attended at the same time as John Reid, whom she later replaced as Secretary of State for Scotland and also made way for as MP for Airdrie and Shotts.
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