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Dame Margaret Eve Hodge (born 8 September 1944) is a British Labour politician, who has served as Member of Parliament for Barking since 1994.〔(''Debrett's People of Today'' )〕 Hodge was created Minister for Children in 2003 before becoming Minister of State for Culture and Tourism in 2005. On 9 June 2010 she was elected Chairman of the influential Public Accounts Committee, in succession to Sir Edward Leigh MP. Born Margaret Eve Oppenheimer, she was known as Margaret Eve Watson from 1968 to 1978, and styled Lady Hodge from 2004, after her second husband was knighted until her appointment as DBE in 2015. ==Early life== Margaret Eve Oppenheimer was born in 1944 at Cairo, Egypt to Hans Oppenheimer and his wife Lisbeth (''née'' Hollitscher).〔 Oppenheimer left Stuttgart in Germany during the 1930s to join his uncle's metals business trading out of Cairo and Alexandria, where he met his fellow émigrée Austrian-born wife. Married in 1936, Lisbeth and he had five children, four girls and a boy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hans Alfred Oppenheimer )〕 At the outset of World War II, the couple and their eldest daughter were rendered stateless, effectively being stranded in the kingdom of Egypt for the duration of the War. The couple decided to leave Egypt as anti-semitism had increased in the Middle East during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The family moved to London where the Oppenheimers started the family-owned steel-trading corporation Stemcor, a privately held company with an annual turnover of over £6 billion in 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Us )〕〔("Griffin vs Hodge: the Battle for Barking" ) ''The Guardian'', 13 March 2010〕 Dame Margaret is a major shareholder, and lists her holdings in the Parliamentary Register of Members' Interests.〔(www.publications.parliament.uk )〕〔Helia Ebrahimi and Harry Wilson ("Margaret Hodge's family company pays just 0.01pc tax on £2.1bn of business generated in the UK" ), ''Daily Telegraph'', 9 November 2012〕 Her mother died from stomach cancer in 1953,〔 before Hodge was sent to boarding school, being educated first at Bromley High School before Oxford High School. She then studied at the London School of Economics, graduating with a third-class Government Studies degree in 1966.〔Lee Elliot Major ("Lifelong learner" ), ''The Guardian'', 19 June 2001〕 Hodge worked in market research from 1966 to 1973, and from 1992 to 1994, she was a Senior Consultant to Price Waterhouse. She married Andrew Watson in 1968; having a son and daughter. The couple divorced in 1978, and she married secondly Henry Hodge (''later'' Sir Henry) by whom she had two more daughters: he was a solicitor, fellow Labour Borough Councillor and Chairman of the National Council for Civil Liberties, before being appointed a High Court Judge as ''Mr Justice Hodge'' (who died 2009). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margaret Hodge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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