Sybil Judith Chaplin , known as Judith Chaplin (née Schofield; 19 August 193919 February 1993), was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Career

Chaplin was elected councillor for Norfolk County Council 1975, following her husband into the role. There she became chairman of the education committee. She took on a role in 1986 with Institute of Directors, becoming head of policy for the group. in 1988 she became special advisor to Nigel Lawson, then

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, and remained in the role when

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took over the following year. When Major became Prime Minister, she acted as his Private Secretary and political assistant. She was elected to Parliament for Newbury at the 1992 election. In the following June, she was appointed

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, and she was considered likely to become chancellor of the exchequer herself in the future. However, her death less than a year later meant that she did not achieve the role.

Personal life

Sybil Judith Schofield born in

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on 19 August 1939. Her father, Theodore Thomas Schofield was a dentist and her mother was Sybil Elsie, née Saunders. She was educated at Wycombe Abbey and before studying economics at Girton College, Cambridge. She would also go on to gain a post-graduate economics degree from University of East Anglia. She married

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in 1962 with whom she had two sons and two daughters, including Alice Walpole, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Luxembourg. However, their marriage was ultimately dissolved in 1979, and she married Luke Keohane in 1984. Chaplin died of a pulmonary embolism on 19 February 1993.

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