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- Caroline_Benn abstract "Caroline Middleton DeCamp Benn (13 October 1926 – 22 November 2000), formerly Viscountess Stansgate, was an educationalist and writer, and wife of the British Labour politician Tony Benn (formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate).Born Caroline Middleton DeCamp, she was the elder daughter of James and Anne DeCamp of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Her father was a lawyer and she came from a privileged background. Educated at Vassar College (BA, 1946) and the University of Cincinnati (BA, 1948), she came to the United Kingdom in 1948 to study at Oxford University and voted for Henry Wallace, the Progressive Party candidate in that year's American Presidential election. She gained an English MA on Jacobean drama (specifically on the masques of Inigo Jones) at University College London in 1951.[citation needed]She met Benn over tea at Worcester College, Oxford in 1949 and nine days later he proposed to her on a park bench in the city. Later, he bought the bench from Oxford City Council and installed it in the garden of their house in Holland Park. In June 1999, on their golden wedding anniversary, she put on the red striped dress she had worn that night. She had four children - Stephen, Hilary, Melissa and Joshua, and ten grandchildren. She was also known as Carol within her family, and Pixie to her husband.[citation needed]Benn devoted her life to comprehensive education and was co-founder of the Campaign for Comprehensive Education. She sent her own children to Holland Park School, one of the first comprehensive schools in the country. In 1970 she wrote, together with Professor Brian Simon, Halfway There - the definitive study of the progress of comprehensive reform in the UK. This was followed up in 1997 with Thirty Years On, which she co-authored with Professor Clyde Chitty. Her widely respected and authoritative biography of the Labour pioneer Keir Hardie was published in 1992.As well as writing extensively about education, Benn held a number of other positions: She was a member of the Inner London Education Authority from 1970 to 1977, an ILEA Governor at Imperial College London, a tutor at the Open University, a lecturer at Kensington and Hammersmith Further Education College from 1970 to 1996, a governor of Holland Park School for 35 years (serving 13 of those as Chair of the Governors),President of the Socialist Education Association. She was a friend of Cherie Blair.Benn played an important role in her husband's political career. She was popular with his colleagues and her views respected. She is personally credited with having suggested the title of the Labour manifesto for the 1964 general election; she proposed The New Britain, and it eventually became Let's Go With Labour For The New Britain. She supported her husband's struggles in the 1980s for Labour's leadership and direction. However, she was also able to provide constructive criticism throughout his political career, such as his 1998 ITN documentary.Benn was diagnosed with breast cancer in June 1996, having been unwell for about a year, but fought the illness for several further years. She became increasingly frail during 2000, having developed spinal metastases, and died at Charing Cross Hospital, London at 10pm on 22 November 2000.[citation needed] A Tribute to Caroline Benn: Education and Democracy edited by her daughter and Clyde Chitty, was published in 2004, featuring essays on her life and on educational reform, her life's work.".
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