Editing Judith Chaplin

{{short description|British politician (1939–1993)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name             = Judith Chaplin
| honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}}
| image            = Judith Chaplain.jpg
| caption          =
| office           = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[Newbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Newbury]]
| term_start       = 9 April 1992
| term_end         = 19 February 1993
| predecessor      = [[Michael McNair-Wilson]]
| successor        = [[David Rendel]]
| office1          = [[Political Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]
| primeminister1   = [[Premiership of John Major|John Major]]
| term_start1      = 1990
| term_end1        = 1992
| predecessor1     = [[John Whittingdale]]
| successor1       = [[Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford|Jonathan Hill]]
| birth_name       = Sybil Judith Schofield
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1939|8|19|df=yes}}
| birth_place      = [[Harpenden]], [[Hertfordshire]], England
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1993|2|19|1939|8|19|df=y}}
| death_place      = [[Paddington]], London, England
| party            = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| spouse           = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Robert Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole]]|1962|1979|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|Michael Chaplin|1984}}
}}
| children         = 4, including [[Alice Walpole|Alice]]
| education        = [[Wycombe Abbey]]
| alma_mater       = [[Girton College, Cambridge]]<br>[[University of East Anglia]]
}}

'''Sybil Judith Chaplin''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|OBE}}, known as '''Judith Chaplin''' (née '''Schofield'''; 19 August 1939{{spaced ndash}}19 February 1993), was a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] politician.<ref name=obituary>{{cite web|title=Obituary: Judith Chaplin|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-judith-chaplin-1474547.html|website=The Independent|access-date=14 November 2016|date=22 February 1993}}</ref>

==Career==
Chaplin was elected a councillor on [[Norfolk County Council]] in 1975, following her husband into the role; on the council she became chairman of the education committee. She took on a role in 1986 with the [[Institute of Directors]], becoming head of policy for the group. In 1988 she became special advisor to [[Nigel Lawson]], the then [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]], and remained in the role when [[John Major]] took over the following year.<ref name=ODNB /> When Major became [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]], she acted as his Private Secretary and political assistant.<ref>{{cite web|title=Major wanted Thatcher 'destroyed'|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/451396.stm|publisher=BBC News|access-date=14 November 2016|date=20 September 1999}}</ref>

She was elected to [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] for [[Newbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Newbury]] at the [[1992 United Kingdom general election|1992 election]].<ref name=obituary /> That June she was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]], and she was considered likely to become chancellor of the exchequer herself in the future; however, these hopes were ended less than a year later by her sudden death.<ref name=ODNB />

==Personal life==
Sybil Judith Schofield was born in [[Harpenden]], [[Hertfordshire]], on 19 August 1939. Her father, Theodore Thomas Schofield, was a dentist; her mother was Sybil Elsie, née Saunders. She was educated at [[Wycombe Abbey]] before studying economics at [[Girton College, Cambridge]]. She went on to gain a postgraduate degree in economics from the [[University of East Anglia]].<ref name="ODNB">{{cite book |last=Gay |first=Oonagh |title=Chaplin [née Schofield; other married name Walpole], (Sybil) Judith (1939–1993) |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-111308 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |access-date=16 May 2020 |date=9 August 2018|doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.111308 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8}}</ref>

She married [[Robert Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole]], in 1962. They had two sons and two daughters, including [[Alice Walpole]], [[List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Luxembourg|Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Luxembourg]]. However, their marriage was ultimately dissolved in 1979, and she married Michael Chaplin in 1984.<ref name=obituary />

Judith Chaplin died of a [[pulmonary embolism]] on 19 February 1993.<ref name=ODNB />

==See also==
* [[List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service]]
* [[1993 Newbury by-election]]

==References==
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 | title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Newbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Newbury]]
 | years = [[1992 United Kingdom general election|1992]]–[[1993 Newbury by-election|1993]]
 | before = [[Michael McNair-Wilson]]
 | after = [[David Rendel]]
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