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David Lidington: Career & Art

Sir David Roy Lidington (born 30 June 1956) is a British former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aylesbury from 1992 until 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2018 to 2019 and was frequently described as being Theresa May's de facto Deputy…

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David Lidington topic overview

The analysis highlights Career and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around David Lidington.

Related topics: 64
Source areas: 4
Connected nodes: 68
Extracted relationships: 29
Concept neighborhoods: 33
Bridge connections: 68

What this topic covers Research coverage

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Parliamentary career · 24 topics

Overview · 23 topics

Early life and career · 15 topics

Personal life · 2 topics

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Key facts & relationships

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Alma mater: Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Born: David Roy Lidington (1956-06-30) 30 June 1956 (age 70) Lambeth, London, England
Children: 4
Leader: Michael Howard · David Cameron · Iain Duncan Smith
Party: Conservative
Preceded by: Patrick McLoughlin · Damian Green · Liz Truss · Chris Grayling · Chris Bryant

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Overview

Member of Parliament Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)
Aylesbury Aylesbury (UK Parliament constituency)
1992 1992 United Kingdom general election
2019 general election 2019 United Kingdom general election
Conservative Party Conservative Party (UK)
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Minister for the Cabinet Office
Theresa May
Minister of State for Europe
David Cameron
Leader of the House of Commons
Lord Chancellor
Secretary of State for Justice
Boris Johnson
Shadow Cabinet Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom)
Ann Winterton
Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Michael Howard
Was elected 2003 Conservative Party leadership election
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
The Daily Telegraph
The Bucks Herald

Early life and career

Lambeth
Merchant Taylors' Prep School
Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Court of the Exchequer
Cambridge University Conservative Association
Cambridge University Students' Union
University Challenge
BP
Rio Tinto Group
Special adviser Special advisers in the United Kingdom
Douglas Hurd
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
1987 general election 1987 United Kingdom general election
Vauxhall constituency Vauxhall (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary career

Parliamentary private secretary
William Hague
Ann Widdecombe
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
2010 general election 2010 United Kingdom general election
Minister for Europe
2016 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours
Bucks Herald
HS2
PMQs
Shadow Foreign Secretary
Emily Thornberry
Jeremy Corbyn
Lord President of the Council
Ban on 'promotion of homosexuality' in schools Section 28
Civil partnerships Civil Partnership Act 2004
Legalisation of same-sex marriage Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013
Cabinet reshuffle 2018 British cabinet reshuffle
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Theresa May's resignation honours 2019 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours
2019 Conservative leadership election 2019 Conservative Party leadership election
Matt Hancock
Rory Stewart
Jeremy Hunt

Personal life

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How David Lidington connects Entity context

The extracted context around David Lidington shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, David Lidington → Chris Bryant, Chris Grayling, Damian Green, Liz Truss, Patrick McLoughlin, Peter Ainsworth, Quentin Davies, Timothy Raison Another extracted example is David Lidington → Alan Duncan .mw-parser-output .cisb-header{line-height:normal;padding:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cisb-table{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .cisb-table.cisb-last{margin-bottom:-0.4em…, Andrea Leadsom, Caroline Spelman (Environment), David Gauke, Michael Gove, Oliver Dowden, Owen Paterson, Rob Butler. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

David Lidington

Top relations

Preceded by · 8

David Lidington → Chris Bryant, Chris Grayling, Damian Green, Liz Truss, Patrick McLoughlin, Peter Ainsworth, Quentin Davies, Timothy Raison

Succeeded by · 8

David Lidington → Alan Duncan .mw-parser-output .cisb-header{line-height:normal;padding:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cisb-table{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .cisb-table.cisb-last{margin-bottom:-0.4em…, Andrea Leadsom, Caroline Spelman (Environment), David Gauke, Michael Gove, Oliver Dowden, Owen Paterson, Rob Butler

Leader · 3

David Lidington → David Cameron, Iain Duncan Smith, Michael Howard

Prime Minister · 2

David Lidington → David Cameron, Theresa May

Shadow Cabinet posts · 2

David Lidington → David Cameron, Michael Howard

Alma mater · 1

David Lidington → Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)

Born · 1

David Lidington → David Roy Lidington (1956-06-30) 30 June 1956 (age 70) Lambeth, London, England

Children · 1

David Lidington → 4

Party · 1

David Lidington → Conservative

Spouse · 1

David Lidington → .mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marria…

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Important terminology

lidington minister secretary 2019 cabinet shadow prime conservative election may theresa state appointed general leader david became june member chancellor

David Lidington relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 29 structured relationships around David Lidington. Examples in this analysis include David Lidington → Alma mater → Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (BA, PhD) and David Lidington → Born → David Roy Lidington (1956-06-30) 30 June 1956 (age 70) Lambeth, London, England. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
David Lidington	Alma mater	Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Born	David Roy Lidington (1956-06-30) 30 June 1956 (age 70) Lambeth, London, England	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Children	4	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Leader	Michael Howard	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Leader	David Cameron	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Leader	Iain Duncan Smith	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Party	Conservative	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Preceded by	Patrick McLoughlin	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Preceded by	Damian Green	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Preceded by	Liz Truss	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Preceded by	Chris Grayling	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Preceded by	Chris Bryant	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Preceded by	Quentin Davies	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Preceded by	Peter Ainsworth	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Preceded by	Timothy Raison	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Prime Minister	Theresa May	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Prime Minister	David Cameron	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Shadow Cabinet posts	Michael Howard	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Shadow Cabinet posts	David Cameron	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Spouse	.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marria…	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Succeeded by	Michael Gove	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Succeeded by	Oliver Dowden	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Succeeded by	David Gauke	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Succeeded by	Andrea Leadsom	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Succeeded by	Alan Duncan .mw-parser-output .cisb-header{line-height:normal;padding:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cisb-table{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .cisb-table.cisb-last{margin-bottom:-0.4em…	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Succeeded by	Owen Paterson	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Succeeded by	Caroline Spelman (Environment)	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Succeeded by	Rob Butler	1.00	infobox
David Lidington	Thesis	The enforcement of the penal statutes at the Court of Exchequer c. 1558 - c.1576. (1988)	1.00	infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around David Lidington bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Born, State and Minister. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

David Lidington
- Born
- State
- Minister
- Prime
- Shadow
- Became
- Aylesbury
- Parliament
- Party
- Secretary
- Howard
- Also
david lidington
- Born
- State
- Minister
- May
- Cabinet
- Conservative
- Prime
- Shadow
- Secretary
- Became
- Theresa
- Appointed
member of parliament
- Became
- Member
- Parliament
- Party
- Cabinet
- Aylesbury
- Born
- State
- Conservative
- Bucks
- Shadow
- David
conservative party
- Howard
- Party
- Leader
- State
- Theresa
- Cabinet
- Prime
- Deputy
- Shadow
- Lidington
- Affairs
- Home
minister for the cabinet office
- Prime
- May
- Chancellor
- Theresa
- Duchy
- Lancaster
- Party
- State
- Howard
- Office
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theresa may
- Prime
- May
- Theresa
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- Minister
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- Chancellor
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- Duchy
shadow cabinet
- May
- State
- Chancellor
- Affairs
- Duchy
- Lancaster
- Party
- Theresa
- Howard
- Office
- Shadow
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shadow secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs
- Shadow
- State
- Affairs
- Howard
- Later
- Became
- Minister
- Home
- Theresa
- Cabinet
- Conservative
- May

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For David Lidington, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects David Lidington with Parliamentary career. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

David Lidington — Parliamentary career · splits 44 ⟂ 25

David Lidington — Overview · splits 45 ⟂ 24

David Lidington — Early life and career · splits 53 ⟂ 16

David Lidington — Personal life · splits 66 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

David Lidington

Nodes69

Edges68

Triples29

Avg. degree1.97

Density0.028986

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around David Lidington to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Career & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — David Lidington · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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