Catherine Sidony McGuinness is a politician and public speaker in the

City of London Corporation The City of London Corporation, officially and legally the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, is the municipal governing body of the City of London, the historic centre of London and the location of much of the United King ...

. She served as Chair of the Policy and Resources Committee, the effective political leader of the corporation, from 2017 to 2022. She is the daughter of two academics, the philosopher

Brian McGuinness Brian McGuinness (22 October 1927 – 23 December 2019) was a Wittgenstein scholar best known for his translation, with David Pears, of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, ''Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus''. He was christened with the forenames ...

and the music historian Rosamond McGuinness. Her brother,

Paddy McGuinness Patrick Joseph McGuinness (born 14 August 1973) is an English actor, comedian and television presenter. He rose to fame with the help of Peter Kay, who invited him to appear in his programmes ''That Peter Kay Thing'', ''Phoenix Nights'' and ''Ma ...

, was the Deputy

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for Intelligence, Security, and Resilience at the

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, 2014 to 2018. She has represented

Castle Baynard Castle Baynard is one of the 25 wards of the City of London, the historic and financial centre of London. Features The ward covers an irregularly shaped area, sometimes likened to a tuning fork, bounded on the east by the wards of Queenhith ...

ward since 1997. In May 2017 she took over from

Mark Boleat Sir Mark John Boleat (born January 1949, in Jersey) is leader of the Jersey Alliance political party, and deputy chairman of the City of London Corporation's Policy and Resources Committee. He has previously been director general of the Building S ...

as chair of the Policy and Resources Committee of the City of London Corporation, having previously been deputy chairman. She is also a trustee of

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. Her husband, John Gilbert, is chair of the Cripplegate Foundation and was previously a

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councillor in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McGuinness, Catherine (English politician) Women councillors in England Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Liberal Democrats (UK) councillors Fellows of King's College London