Milly Calvert
Posted: Tue May 04, 2021 6:32 pm
MILLY CALVERT
Name: Mrs Millicent Mary Calvert
Avatar: Prunella Scales
Age: 11 June 1948 (aged 71)
Sex: Female
Ethnicity: White British
Marital Status: Widow of Timothy Calvert, MP for Wealden
Party: Conservative and Unionist
Primary Tribe: Tory Reform Group
Secondary Tribes: Red Tory
Brexit Position: Leave
Constituency: Bexhill and Battle
Year Elected: 1997
Career: Advertising, then Parliament
Political Career: MP for Bexhill and Battle
She was born Millicent 'Milly' Boswell-Reid in June 1948 in Hexham, Northumberland. Her father was a Magistrate and Alderman, her mother the concert pianist Anne Reid. She studied at the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School before moving to London to study Fine Art at the City and Guilds of London Art School. In 1973, she joined for Saatchi & Saatchi as a commercial advertising artist before establishing her own advertising firm, Calvert Designs, in 1978.
In 1979, she married Timothy Calvert, a lawyer with political ambitions some ten years her senior. She worked on his first campaign to be selected as the candidate for Wealden in 1987 becoming a well respected member of the Tory Wives Club. In 1997, she was approached to stand for parliament herself representing Bexhill and Battle, the neighbouring constituency to her husbands. She was widowed in 2003.
Name: Mrs Millicent Mary Calvert
Avatar: Prunella Scales
Age: 11 June 1948 (aged 71)
Sex: Female
Ethnicity: White British
Marital Status: Widow of Timothy Calvert, MP for Wealden
Party: Conservative and Unionist
Primary Tribe: Tory Reform Group
Secondary Tribes: Red Tory
Brexit Position: Leave
Constituency: Bexhill and Battle
Year Elected: 1997
Career: Advertising, then Parliament
Political Career: MP for Bexhill and Battle
She was born Millicent 'Milly' Boswell-Reid in June 1948 in Hexham, Northumberland. Her father was a Magistrate and Alderman, her mother the concert pianist Anne Reid. She studied at the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School before moving to London to study Fine Art at the City and Guilds of London Art School. In 1973, she joined for Saatchi & Saatchi as a commercial advertising artist before establishing her own advertising firm, Calvert Designs, in 1978.
In 1979, she married Timothy Calvert, a lawyer with political ambitions some ten years her senior. She worked on his first campaign to be selected as the candidate for Wealden in 1987 becoming a well respected member of the Tory Wives Club. In 1997, she was approached to stand for parliament herself representing Bexhill and Battle, the neighbouring constituency to her husbands. She was widowed in 2003.