Sarah Jane Brown
| Sarah Brown | |
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Sarah Brown in 2008
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| Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |
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In role 27 June 2007 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Cherie Blair |
| Succeeded by | Samantha Cameron |
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Sarah Jane Macaulay 31 October 1963 Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Gordon Brown (m. 2000) |
| Children | Jennifer Jane (b. 2001-d.2002) John Macaulay (born 2003) James Fraser (born 2006) |
| Residence | North Queensferry |
| Alma mater | University of Bristol |
Sarah Jane Brown (née Macaulay; born 31 October 1963), usually known as Sarah Brown, is a British campaigner for global health and education, founder and president of Theirworld, a children's charity, the Executive Chair of the Global Business Coalition for Education and the co-founder of A World at School. She was a founding partner of Hobsbawm Macaulay Communications, a public relations company. She is married to the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown.
Sarah Jane Macaulay was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire on 31 October 1963. Her mother Pauline was a teacher and her father Iain worked for publisher Longman. Macaulay spent her infancy in Fife, before her family moved to Tanzania—where her mother was to operate a school—when she was two. When she was eight her parents separated. Both then remarried and her mother and stepfather took her and her two younger brothers, Sean and Bruce, to live in north London.
She was educated in north London at Acland Burghley School and Camden School for Girls, and took a psychology degree at the University of Bristol.
After leaving university, she worked at the brand consultancy Wolff Olins. At age 30 she founded the public-relations firm Hobsbawm Macaulay, in partnership with an old school friend, Julia Hobsbawm. Their clients included the New Statesman (owned by Geoffrey Robinson), the Labour Party and trade unions. In 2001, she left Hobsbawm Macaulay after finding out she was pregnant with her, and her husband Gordon Brown's, first child.
In 2002 Brown founded the charity Theirworld—originally known as PiggyBankKids—which began as a research fund to tackle complications in pregnancy, and in 2004 the charity founded the Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh. The laboratory's work is notable for its unified obstetric and neonatal approach to complications in pregnancy and childbirth, with a particular focus on preterm births.
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