Dame Angela Watkinson
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Dame Angela Watkinson DBE |
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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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In office 7 June 2001 – 3 May 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Keith Darvill |
| Succeeded by | Julia Dockerill |
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18 November 1941 Leytonstone, Essex, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Roy Watkinson |
| Website | www.angelawatkinson.org.uk |
Dame Angela Eileen Watkinson, DBE (née Ellicott; born 18 November 1941) is a British politician. She was Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornchurch and Upminster until 2017, and was first elected in 2001 to the earlier seat of Upminster, defeating Labour's Keith Darvill who had taken the seat from the Conservatives in 1997. She was re-elected with an increased majorities in 2005 and 2010.
On 19 April 2017, Watkinson announced that she would not be standing for re-election in the 2017 general election.
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 and became a secretary in 1976 of a Special School in Essex, which helps 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 (for the division of Billericay North, from 1997–2001. This was a rare example of a councillor serving simultaneously on first tier authorities in different counties.
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