Caroline Jackson
British politician (born 1946)
Caroline Frances Jackson (née Harvey; 5 November 1946 – 20 October 2025) was a British Conservative Party politician who was a Member of the European Parliament from 1984 to 2009.
Early career
Caroline Frances Harvey was born in Penzance, Cornwall, on 5 November 1946.
Before she became an MEP, Jackson was a Research Fellow at St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she obtained a doctorate in 19th century political history. She also studied at Nuffield College, Oxford. She worked at the Conservative Research Department from 1973 to 1974 and fought the constituency of Birmingham Erdington in the February 1974 general election. She then became a member of the research team supporting the first British Conservative MEPs from 1974 to 1984.
Member of the European Parliament
Jackson was elected to represent the Wiltshire constituency from 1984 to 1994, then the new Wiltshire North and Bath constituency from 1994 to 1999 and from 1999 to 2009 served as an MEP for the South West England constituency.
In the European Parliament, she was a leading member of the Environment Committee and between 1999 and 2004 was chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Consumer Protection and Public Health. During her chairmanship she tried to focus attention as much on Member States' performance in transposing and applying new EU laws as on the adoption of more such laws. This was during a period of intense legislation in the area of water and air pollution, waste disposal and controls on chemicals.
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