Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Garnett was born in Dunoon, Scotland to W. John Garnett CBE, former director of what was then called The Industrial Society, and Barbara Rutherford-Smith, a teacher and elected Conservative member of the Inner London Education Authority. Her paternal aunt was Labour Greater London Council Member Margaret (Peggy) Jay. She first met Peter Bottomley, her future husband, when she was 12 years old; they wed in 1967.

Bottomley was educated at Putney High School, an independent school for girls in Putney in south-west London, before going up to the University of Essex to study sociology (BA). She later graduated from the London School of Economics with the degree of Master of Arts (MA). She began her working life as a social scientist, researcher for Child Poverty Action Group, social worker, magistrate (Justice of the Peace), and Chairman of the Inner London Juvenile Court.

Member of Parliament and in government

After unsuccessfully contesting the Isle of Wight in the 1983 general election (34,904 votes), she was elected to Parliament with 21,545 votes in a by-election in 1984 (filling the seat left vacant by the death of Maurice Macmillan, son of former prime minister Harold Macmillan), as the Member for South West Surrey, was PPS to Chris Patten and then to Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe, received her first ministerial position in 1988 as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of the Environment and was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Health in 1989. She was appointed a member of the Privy Council (PC) upon joining John Major’s Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health in 1992 and served until 1995. She was the 9th woman in the British cabinet.

Personal life[edit]

In 1967 he married Virginia Garnett who later became a Cabinet Minister (Health Secretary), and a life peer in 2005^[6] as Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone. They have a son and two daughters. The couple have homes in Worthing, West Sussex, Milford, Surrey and Westminster.^{[citation needed]}

His brother was a Labour Lambeth councillor; his brother-in-law was Conservative Mayor of Cambridge. His niece is Kitty Ussher, the economist, former Labour MP and Minister. His great-grandfather Sir Richard Robinson led the Municipal Reformers to victory in the 1907 London County Council election.

In 2002-2003 he was Master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers.

In 2003 he was banned from driving for 6 months following several speeding offences.^[18]

Bottomley was knighted in the 2011 New Year Honours for public service.^[19][20]

In 1989 he successfully sued The Mail on Sunday, the Daily Express and News of the World for allegations connected with his support of the union membership of a social worker in his constituency accused of misbehaviour in a children’s home. In 1995 he was awarded £40,000 against the Sunday Express for an article that depicted him as having behaved in a treacherously disloyal and disreputable manner in connection with Sinn Fein/the IRA.^[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bottomley

THE MYSTERIOUS BOTTOMLEYS

Margaret Thatcher and Virginia Bottomley

Virginia Garnett married Peter Bottomley.

Both Virginia and Peter Bottomley became Conservative members of the UK parliament.

Virginia Bottomley is a Governor of the spooky London School of Economics.

Peter Bottomley

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