The Right Honourable Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, PC (born March 12, 1948), née Virginia Garnett, is a British Conservative Party politician. She was a Member of Parliament from 1984 to 2005 and was considered to be a 'One Nation Conservative'. She became a life peer on June 24, 2005 with the title Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, the parish on the Isle of Wight where she was baptised and got married. A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, especially in a monarchy. ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ... June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The Isle of Wight is an island county off the south coast of England, opposite Southampton. ...

She studied at the London School of Economics. She was a researcher for Child Poverty Action Group and then became a social worker and a magistrate (Justice of the Peace). The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or the LSE, is a specialist university based in London, often regarded as one of the worlds most prestigious social science institutions. ... Child Poverty Action Group is a UK charity. ... A social worker is a person employed in the administration of charity, social service, welfare, and poverty agencies, advocacy, or religious outreach programs. ... A magistrate is a judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. ... A Justice of the Peace (JP) is a magistrate appointed by a commission to keep the peace, dispense summary justice and deal with local administrative applications in common law jurisdictions. ...

She was elected to Parliament in a by-election in 1984, as the Member for Surrey South West, and received her first ministerial position in 1988, as junior Environment minister, and was appointed Minister of Health in 1989. She become a member of the Privy Council, and joined John Major's cabinet, serving as Secretary of State for Health from 1992 to 1995, and then Secretary of State for National Heritage from 1995 to 1997. After the 1997 general election, she returned to the backbenches also becoming a headhunter for the charity and public sectors. She stepped down from the House of Commons before the 2005 general election. The debating chamber or hemicycle of the European Parliament in Brussels. ... A by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office when the incumbent has died or resigned. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, especially in a monarchy. ... The Right Honourable Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a British politician who served in the Cabinets of Margaret Thatcher as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer before succeeding Thatcher as Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister of the United... Minister of Health redirects here. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is a UK cabinet position with responsibility for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ... A backbencher is a Member of Parliament or a legislature who does not hold governmental office and is not a Front Bench spokesperson in the Opposition. ... Headhunter can refer to: Headhunter: a person who takes someones life in order to take their head. ... Allegorical personification of Charity as a mother with three infants by Anthony van Dyck Charity is a term in Christian theology (one of the three theological virtues), meaning loving kindness towards others; it is held to be the ultimate perfection of the human spirit, because it is said to both... The public sector is that part of economic and administrative life that deals with the delivery of goods and services by and for the government, whether national, regional or local/municipal. ... Barring a change in the law, the next general election in the United Kingdom must be held some time before June 30, 2006. ...

She is also involved with charitable and academic bodies. She is a Governor of the London School of Economics and the University of the Arts, London. She is also a Council Member of the Ditchley Foundation and President of Farnham Castle Centre for International Briefing. She is on the Advisory Council of the International Chamber of Commerce UK and the Judge School of Management, Cambridge. Virginia is a trustee and fellow of the Industry and Parliament Trust. She is National President of the Abbeyfield Society and a Vice-Patron of Carers and Cruse. She is a lay Canon of Guildford Cathedral, and a Freeman of the City of London. The University of the Arts, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is comprised of the College of Art and Design, the College of Performing Arts, and the College of Media and Communication. ... The Ditchley Foundation is a British organisation based at Ditchley House near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, which aims to promote international relations, especially Anglo-American relations, through a program of around fifteen annual conferences on matters of international interest. ... Guildford Cathedral claims to be the only cathedral to be built on a new site in the southern Province of England since the Reformation. Guildford was made a diocese in its own right in 1927, and work on its new cathedral, designed by Sir Edward Maufe, began nine years later. ... This article is about a small section of central London. ...

She married Peter Bottomley in 1967; since 1975 he has been an MP. Her brother, Christopher Garnett, is the chief executive of the GNER railway, and Peter Jay, the former British Ambassador to the United States, is a cousin. Peter Bottomley (born 30 July 1944) is a British politician. ... GNER White Rose train at Kings Cross railway station Great North Eastern Railways (GNER) is a British train operating company (TOC) owned by Sea Containers Ltd. ... Peter Jay is a British economist. ... The British Ambassador is in charge of Britains diplomatic mission to the USA. His official title is, Her Majestys Ambassador to the United States of America. ...

William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, PC (born August 15, 1946), educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and now a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford is a British Conservative politician who served in the Cabinet from 1990 until 1997. ... Minister of Health redirects here. ... The Right Honourable Stephen Dorrell (born March 25, 1952) is an English politician and Tory member of Parliament for Charnwood. ... The Right Honourable Stephen Dorrell (born March 25, 1952) is an English politician and Tory member of Parliament for Charnwood. ... The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is a UK cabinet position with responsibility for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. ... Christopher Robert Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, PC (born 24 July 1951) is a British Labour Party politician and former Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister. ...