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Valerie Davey

British politician

Summary

British politician

Field	Value
name	Valerie Davey
office	Member of Parliament
for Bristol West
term_start	1 May 1997
term_end	11 April 2005
predecessor	William Waldegrave
successor	Stephen Williams
birth_date
birth_place	Surrey
birthname	Valerie Corbett
nationality	English
party	Labour
alma_mater	University of Birmingham
University College London
occupation	Teacher, Politician

|honorific-prefix = |honorific-suffix = for Bristol West University College London Valerie Davey (born Valerie Corbett; 16 April 1940) is a former Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol West in England.

Early life

Born in Surrey, Davey studied theology and history at the University of Birmingham and gained a PGCE at the Institute of Education in 1963. She then gained an MA in Theology, specialising in New Testament textual criticism. Entering work, she taught near Wolverhampton at the Regis Comprehensive School (now the King's Church of England School) on Regis Road in Tettenhall. After her marriage, she moved to Tanzania and taught at the Ilboru Secondary School on Ilboru Road in Arusha. Davey moved to Bristol in 1968, and concentrated on her children. She taught for one year Religious studies A level at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College. She was an Avon County Council councillor from 1981 until the county's abolition in 1996 and Labour group leader from 1992. Davey was also a governor of various schools and of Bristol Polytechnic (now the UWE).

Parliamentary career

She won the three-way marginal seat of Bristol West at the 1997 general election, displacing the Conservative cabinet minister William Waldegrave, but lost it to the Liberal Democrat Stephen Williams at the 2005 general election.

In Parliament, she was a member of the House of Commons Education & Skills Committee.

Personal life

She married Graham Davey in 1966 in Weston-super-Mare. They have a son and two daughters.

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