What is Cheryl Gillan?
[[File:Cheryl Gllian Official.jpg|Dame Cheryl Gllian|right|frameless]] '''Dame Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan''' <small>[[Order of the British Empire|DBE]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]]</small> (21 April 1952 &ndash; 4 April 2021) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[politician]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087138/Minister-Cheryl-Gillan-urged-resign-selling-home-weeks-High-Speed-2-ahead.html |title= Minister urged to resign after selling home weeks before rail link go-ahead|author=Groves, Jason |date=16 January 2012 |publisher=Daily Mail Australia |accessdate=22 February 2016}}</ref> She was the Secretary of State for [[Wales]] from 2010 to 2012. She was a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the [[Chesham and Amersham (UK Parliament constituency)|Chesham and Amersham]] [[constituency]] in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]] from 1992 to 2021. Gillan was born in [[Cardiff]], Wales. She was first [[wikt:elect|elected]] in the 1992 general election and became the Shadow Secretary of State for Wales in 2005. When the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]-[[Liberal Democrats|Liberal Democrat]] [[coalition]] was formed on 11 May 2010, she became the Secretary of State for [[Wales]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cheryl-gillan-is-appointed-secretary-of-state-for-wales|title=Cheryl Gillan is appointed Secretary of State for Wales|website=GOV.UK|language=en|access-date=2019-05-29}}</ref> She was dismissed from this post in a cabinet reshuffle in 2012.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-19570510/cheryl-gillian-cabinet-sacking-and-welsh-secretary-job|title=Sacked minister: I am only 60|work=BBC News |language=en-GB|access-date=2019-05-29}}</ref> She was the Chair of the [[1922 committee]] from May until September 2019. This is the powerful committee of backbench Conservative MPs in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]]. Gillan was diagnosed with [[breast cancer]