Angela Billingham
Angela Theodora Billingham, Baroness Billingham JP (born 31 July 1939) is a British Labour politician and a member of the House of Lords.
Political Career[edit]
Baroness Billingham was a councillor for many years. From 1970 until 1974, she served on Banbury Borough Council, then from 1974 to 1984 on Cherwell District Council. She was Mayor of Banbury in 1976. She was an Oxfordshire county councillor 1993-94. She stood for Parliament in 1992 for Banbury, without success.
Billingham was elected to the European Parliament for Northamptonshire and Blaby in 1994.[1] In 1999 she unsuccessfully stood for the European Parliament in the new East Midlands Region. She was made a life peer as Baroness Billingham, of Banbury in the County of Oxfordshire on 2 May 2000[2] and sits on the Labour benches.[3][4]
Education[edit]
Born Angela Theodora Case in Liverpool, she was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School, the Institute of Education and the Department of Education, Oxford University. She became a teacher, working in education for thirty five years until 1995.
