Baroness Lawson of Blaby, who died 31 January, 2023, her 76th birthday, was the wife of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby.
She was born Thérèse Mary Bate, 31 January, 1947, daughter of Henry Charles Maclear Bate, of Putney, London, and married 1980, as his second wife, Baron Lawson of Blaby, PC (born 11 March 1932), who was a Conservative party politician, and leading member of Margaret Thatcher's administration, Chancellor of the Exchequer for six years.
Her husband served as Conservative MP for Blaby from 1974 to 1992, and served in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet from 1981 to 1989. Prior to entering the Cabinet, he served as the Financial Secretary to the Treasury from May 1979 until his promotion to Secretary of State for Energy. He was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in June 1983, and served until his resignation in October 1989. In both Cabinet posts, Lawson was a key proponent of Thatcher's policies of privatisation of several key industries. Lawson was a backbencher from 1989 until he retired in 1992, and was raised to the peerage for life in that year as Baron Lawson of Blaby, of Newnham in the County of Northamptonshire.
Her husband survived her by several months and died 3 April, 2023.
She leaves a son, the Hon Thomas Lawson (b 1976), and daughter, the Hon Emily (born 1981).
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