Margaret Joachim

Reverend Doctor Margaret Jane Joachim MBE (born 25 June 1949) is a British former Liberal Party and current Liberal Democrat politician who was chair of the Women's Liberal Democrats.

Background

Joachim was the daughter of Reginald and Joyce Margaret Carpenter. She was educated at Brighton and Hove High School, St Hugh's College, Oxford (MA Geology) and the University of Birmingham (PhD Geology). In 1970 she married Paul Joseph Joachim. They had one daughter.[1]

Political career

Joachim was Liberal candidate for the West Gloucestershire at the 1979 General Election, finishing third. She was Liberal candidate for the Finchley (the seat of the then Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher) at the 1983 General Election, finishing third.[2] She was Liberal candidate for the Epsom and Ewell at the 1987 General Election, finishing second. She did not stand for parliament again.

She was training officer for the Liberal Parliamentary Association from 1979 to 1984. She was a member of the executive of the Women's Liberal Federation from 1984 to 1985. She was chair of the Women's Liberal Democrats from 1989 to 1990 and vice-chair from 1990 to 1992. She was chair of the Liberal Democrats London Region Candidates’ Committee from 2007 to 2010 and chair of the Liberal Democrats English Candidates’ Committee from 2011 to 2013.[3]

Joachim was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to women in politics.[4]

Arms

Paul Joachim died before 3 May 2019. Margaret matriculated arms on his behalf.[5]

Coat of arms of Margaret Joachim
Crest
Upon a Helm with a Wreath Argent and Vert A Closed Book fesswise Vert edged and garnished Or thereon a British Blue cat statant proper crouched on the back thereof a Mouse Or Mantled Vert doubled Argent.
Escutcheon
Quarterly Vert and Gules a Cross pommy throughout Argent charged at the end of each limb and at the centre with a Roundel Sable.
Motto
Ingenuity
Badge
A Bar pommy Argent fimbriated Sable surmounted at the centre by an Ammonite Vert and charged at each end with a Roundel Sable.

Electoral record
1979 United Kingdom general election: Gloucestershire West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Paul Marland 28,183 47.9
Labour John Watkinson 24,009 40.8
Liberal Margaret Joachim 6,370 10.8
National Front G Storkey 270 0.5
Majority 4,174 7.1
Turnout 83.9
General Election 1983: Finchley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Margaret Thatcher 19,616 51.1 −1.4
Labour Lawrence Gregory Spigel 10,302 26.8 −5.9
Liberal Margaret Joachim 7,763 20.2 +7.0
Ecology Simone Joan Wilkinson 279 0.7 N/A
Monster Raving Loony Screaming Lord Sutch 235 0.6 N/A
Ban Every Licensing Law Society Antony Joseph Noonan 75 0.2 N/A
Rail Not Motorway Mary Helen Anscomb 42 0.1 N/A
Law and Order in Gotham City Antony Peter Whitehead 37 0.1 N/A
Anti-Censorship David Alec Webb 28 0.1 N/A
Party of Associates with Licensees Brian Clifford Wareham 27 0.1 N/A
Belgrano Blood-Hunger Benjamin Cunningham Wedmore 13 0.0 N/A
Majority 9,314 24.2 +4.4
Turnout 38,417 69.0 −2.8
Conservative hold Swing +2.2
General Election 1987: Epsom and Ewell
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Archie Hamilton 33,145 62.21
Liberal Margaret Joachim 12,384 23.24
Labour Barbara Follett 7,751 14.55
Majority 20,761 38.97
Turnout 75.38
Conservative hold Swing

References
  1. ‘JOACHIM, Rev. Dr Margaret Jane’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, Nov 2014 accessed 25 April 2015
  2. British parliamentary election results 1974–1983, Craig, F.W.S.
  3. ‘ Joachim, Rev. Dr Margaret Jane Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, Oxford University Press; online edition, November 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2015
  4. "No. 63918". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2022. p. N20.
  5. "July 2019 Newsletter". College of Arms. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
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