Shirley Williams
(1930-2021), Academic and politician; MP for Hitchin, Crosby and Stevenage and co-founder of Social Democratic PartyShirley Vivien Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby
Sitter in 11 portraits
The daughter of Vera Brittain, Shirley Williams became a Labour MP in 1964. She was a co-founder of the Social Democratic Party in 1981, and became the party's first elected MP. In 1988 she joined the merged Social and Liberal Democratic Party. Williams was awarded a life peerage in 1993.
by Bern Schwartz
dye transfer print, 19 May 1977
NPG P1267
Joint leaders of the Social Democratic Party
by Norman Parkinson
bromide print, 1981
NPG P180
by Yevonde
black and white reprint on card mount, 1960s
NPG x131754
by Walter Bird
bromide print, 21 June 1966
NPG x166854
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 28 March 1974
NPG x27422
by Michael Ward
bromide fibre print, 26 March 1977
NPG x128562
Related People
- Vera Brittain (mother)
- Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin (father)
- Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (husband)
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