Elizabeth Shields

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| name = Elizabeth Shields

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| caption = Shields at the 1987 Liberal Party Assembly

| office1 = Member of Parliament
for Ryedale

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| majority1 = 4,940 (in 1986)

| predecessor1 = John Spence

| successor1 = John Greenway

| term_start1 = 8 May 1986

| term_end1 = 11 June 1987

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| nationality = British

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| party = Liberal Democrats

| otherparty = Liberal (1980–1988)

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| alma_mater = University of York

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Elizabeth Lois Shields (née Teare; born 27 February 1928) is a British former politician.{{cite web |title=Parliamentary career for Mrs Elizabeth Shields - MPs and Lords |url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/1380/career |website=UK Parliament |access-date=14 May 2021 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Mrs Elizabeth Shields |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mrs-elizabeth-shields/index.html |website=Hansard |access-date=14 May 2021}}

Biography

Shields studied at the University of York and became a teacher and lecturer. She served as a councillor on Ryedale District Council from 1980 to 2019 for Norton (later Norton East).{{cite web |title=Norton East Ward |url=https://www.andrewteale.me.uk/leap/ward/8269/ |website=Local Elections Archive Project |access-date=14 May 2021}}{{cite web |title=ELECTION OF COUNCILLORS FOR THE NORTON EAST DISTRICT WARD |url=https://www.ryedale.gov.uk/images/Elections/Norton_East_District_Ward_Result_02_05_2019.pdf |website=Ryedale District Council |access-date=14 May 2021}}

Shields contested Howden in 1979 and Ryedale in 1983. Following the death of Ryedale's Conservative MP John Spence in 1986, Shields achieved victory in the Ryedale by-election of 1986, becoming the constituency's first Liberal MP, as part of the Alliance electoral pact between the Liberals and the Social Democrats. However, it was a short-lived success, as the Conservative John Greenway regained Ryedale at the 1987 general election.{{cite web |title=Parliamentary career for Mrs Elizabeth Shields - MPs and Lords |url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/1380/career |website=UK Parliament |access-date=14 May 2021 |language=en}} Shields stood for Ryedale again in 1992, this time for the Liberal Democrats, who were the successors to the Liberal Party. The Conservatives, however, increased their majority.{{cite web |title=Parliamentary career for Mrs Elizabeth Shields - MPs and Lords |url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/1380/career |website=UK Parliament |access-date=14 May 2021 |language=en}}

After previously serving as the Group Leader of the Liberal Democrats on the District Council, Shields lost her seat to the Conservatives in the 2019 local elections.{{cite web |title=ELECTION OF COUNCILLORS FOR THE NORTON EAST DISTRICT WARD |url=https://www.ryedale.gov.uk/images/Elections/Norton_East_District_Ward_Result_02_05_2019.pdf |website=Ryedale District Council |access-date=14 May 2021}} During 1989–1990 she held the office of Chairman of the District Council.

References

Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1992
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Thirsk and Malton Liberal Democrats Executive Committee minutes 2007.
Ryedale District Council - Website

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External links

{{Hansard-contribs | mrs-elizabeth-shields | Elizabeth Shields }}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070311171400/http://www.councillor.info/eshields.aspx Councillor.info personal site]

{{succession box

| title = Member of Parliament for Ryedale

| years = 1986–1987

| before = John Spence

| after = John Greenway

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Category:1928 births

Category:Living people

Category:Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies

Category:Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies

Category:Liberal Democrats (UK) councillors

Category:Councillors in North Yorkshire