She previously had a career spanning nearly 20 years at Abbey National PLC, latterly serving as an Executive Director on the board.
For much of the last 20 years, Smart was based firmly in the department of religious studies at Santa Barbara, for part of the time acting as chair and latterly serving as elected president of the American Academy of Reli gion.
Latterly he also served as Italy's deputy foreign minister.
In the Bedford, his next ship, he attained the rank of lieutenant, and remaining in her for six years, latterly as first lieutenant, served in the blockade of Flushing, on the coast of Portugal, and in other parts of the world, but chiefly on the Brazil station, whither the Bedford had gone as one of the convoy which conducted the royal family of Portugal to Rio de Janeiro in 1808.
Hogwood served on numerous editorial and advisory boards, and latterly held guest conductorships with the Kammerorchester Basel (2000-06), Orquesta Ciudad de Granada (2001 04), Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi (2003-06) and the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra (from 2011).
First elected in Redditch in 1997 – always a West Midlands swing seat, she plans to defend it in what will be a tough contest – she had served as a junior minister, notably in education, and latterly as Tony Blair's chief whip.
A committed Christian, latterly closely engaged with the United Reformed Church at Kingston upon Thames, near his home at Claygate in Surrey, he served on a churches commission on unemployment, a phenomenon that continued to haunt and outrage him.
Behind this facade, which caused her no little personal unhappiness, was a kind, down-to-earth woman who never severed her links with Southend, near where she was born, never forgot old friends (her Southend costume maker served her for over a generation) and sometimes made new ones as she did her shopping around Islington, north London, where latterly she lived.
After retiring from athletics at 34, Coe was immediately selected to stand as a Tory MP, serving one parliamentary term, latterly as a whip, before losing his seat in 1997, only to be appointed William Hague's chief of staff.
He has worked for Walmart for 20 years, serving tours in Japan, Germany, Canada and latterly Walmart China and is being parachuted in to end a long period of underperformance at the retailer's UK business.
