What is Shirley Williams?
[[File:Regius Professorship Lecture (15648721150).jpg|frameless|right]] '''Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CH|PC}} (''[[née]]'' '''Catlin'''; 27 July 1930 – 12 April 2021) was a British [[politician]]. Williams was originally a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] MP - first elected to the House of Commons in 1964 - but left to found the [[Social Democratic Party (UK)|Social Democratic Party]] (later the [[Liberal Democrats]]) in 1981. She served in government through the 1960s and 70s, but was defeated as an MP in 1983. She was awarded a [[life peer]]age in 1993 and retired in 2016. She was made a [[Order of the Companions of Honour|Companion of Honour]] in 2017. Williams was the daughter of the author [[Vera Brittain]] and Sir George Catlin. She died on 12 April 2021, aged 90.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/04/12/shirley-williams-baroness-williams-crosby-has-died-aged-90/|title=Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, has died aged 90|work=The Telegraph|date=12 April 2021|access-date=12 April 2021}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Shirley}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:Academics of the University of Cambridge]] [[Category:Academics of the University of Oxford]] [[Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford]] [[Category:Columbia University alumni]] [[Category:English Roman Catholics]] [[Category:Labour Party (UK) MPs]] [[Category:Liberal Democrats (UK) MPs]] [[Category:Members of the British House of Commons for English constituencies]] [[Category:Harvard University faculty]] [[Category:Journalists from London]] [[Category:Liberal Democrat Life Peers]] [[Category:Secretaries of State of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Social Democratic Party (UK) MPs]] [[Category:UK MPs 1964–1966]] [[Category:UK MPs 1966–1970]] [[Category:UK MPs 1970–1974]] [[Category:UK MPs 1974]] [[Category:UK MPs 1974–1979]] [[Category:UK MPs 1979–1983]] [[Category:Poli