Helen Margaret Jackson

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Price, born 19 May 1939) is a British former

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politician.

Early life

She attended the independent Berkhamsted School for Girls and read Modern History at

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, graduating from

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in 1960, and then the C.F. Mott College of Education (which later became part of

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), gaining a

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(PGCE) in 1972. Between 1960 and 1961, she worked as assistant librarian at the

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. From 1961 to 1962, Jackson was an assistant teacher in

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. She was a teacher in

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between 1972 and 1974, and in Sheffield from 1974 from 1980. Jackson was on Labour's

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Parliamentary career

Jackson was

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for Sheffield Hillsborough from 1992 until she stepped down at the 2005 general election. Jackson was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for her services to the Women and Pensions Network and the community in South Yorkshire.

Family

She married Keith Jackson in 1960, but the couple divorced in 1998. They have two sons and one daughter. Her brother, Christopher Price, was the Labour MP for

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from 1966 to 1970, and for Lewisham West from February 1974 to 1983.

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