Early Life
Born Angela Pearson in Reading. Her father was a lab technician at the University of Reading. She was educated at the Westwood Grammar School for Girls (a grammar school, now called Prospect School) on Honey End Lane in Reading, Reading College of Technology, and the Bournemouth College of Technology. She became a Home Economics tutor in adult education from 1968 until 1974. She was an auxiliary nurse for a year in 1976. She was appointed as a sales and training manager with GEC Hotpoint in 1977. In 1985 she became a self-employed management consultant and was also became Director of the Small Business Bureau until 1994. From 1988-92, she was the Chairman of Women into Business.
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