Judith Chaplin
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Sybil Judith Chaplin Template:Postnominals, known as Judith Chaplin (née Schofield; 19 August 1939Template:Spaced ndash19 February 1993), was a British Conservative Party politician.<ref name=obituary>Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
Chaplin was elected a councillor on Norfolk County Council in 1975, following her husband into the role; on the council she became chairman of the education committee. She took on a role in 1986 with the Institute of Directors, becoming head of policy for the group. In 1988 she became special advisor to Nigel Lawson, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, and remained in the role when John Major took over the following year.<ref name=ODNB /> When Major became Prime Minister, she acted as his Private Secretary and political assistant.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
She was elected to Parliament for Newbury at the 1992 election.<ref name=obituary /> That June she was appointed OBE, and she was considered likely to become chancellor of the exchequer herself in the future; however, these hopes were ended less than a year later by her sudden death.<ref name=ODNB />
Personal life
Sybil Judith Schofield was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, on 19 August 1939. Her father, Theodore Thomas Schofield, was a dentist; her mother was Sybil Elsie, née Saunders. She was educated at Wycombe Abbey before studying economics at Girton College, Cambridge. She went on to gain a postgraduate degree in economics from the University of East Anglia.<ref name="ODNB">Template:Cite book</ref>
She married Robert Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole, in 1962. They had two sons and two daughters, including Alice Walpole, British Ambassador to Luxembourg. However, their marriage was ultimately dissolved in 1979, and she married Michael Chaplin in 1984.<ref name=obituary />
Judith Chaplin died of a pulmonary embolism on 19 February 1993.<ref name=ODNB />
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- 1939 births
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- Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge
- Alumni of the University of East Anglia
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Conservative Party (UK) councillors
- Deaths from pulmonary embolism
- Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- Members of Norfolk County Council
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Berkshire
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- People educated at Wycombe Abbey
- People from Harpenden
- UK MPs 1992–1997
- Walpole family
- 20th-century English women
- 20th-century English politicians
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