Shirley Catherine Wynne Summerskill (born 9 September 1931) is a British Labour Party politician and former government minister, who served as the Member of Parliament for Halifax from 1964 to 1983.
[1] Summerskill was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Somerville College, Oxford, and trained as a doctor at St. Thomas's Hospital.
[1] In 1980, she was interviewed by the BBC's Panorama current affairs programme about Britain's preparations for a nuclear attack.
[1] Sumerskill married lawyer and future Labour MP John Ryman in 1957; they divorced in 1971.
[4] Her nephew, Ben Summerskill, was chief executive of the UK gay equality charity Stonewall from 2003 to 2014.