Phyllis Margaret Starkey (née Williams; born 4 January 1947) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes South West since 1997. She was previously the Leader of Oxford City Council.
She was the daughter of Dr John Williams, a food chemist, and Catherine Hooson Williams. She attended the independent Perse School for Girls in Cambridge then did a BA in Biochemistry at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford in 1970. I...
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Phyllis Margaret Starkey (née Williams; born 4 January 1947) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes South West since 1997. She was previously the Leader of Oxford City Council.
She was the daughter of Dr John Williams, a food chemist, and Catherine Hooson Williams. She attended the independent Perse School for Girls in Cambridge then did a BA in Biochemistry at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford in 1970. In 1974 she gained a PhD from Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Before she entered parliament, Phyllis Starkey's career was in biomedical research. Her early work with Alan Barrett at the University of Cambridge was in the field of biochemistry, and included formulating the trap hypothesis of peptidase inhibition. From 1974-81, she was at the Strangeways Laboratory in Cambridge. She later headed a group at the University of Oxford researching problems of pregnancy. She was at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in Oxford from 1981-4. She lectured in...
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