Audrey Elizabeth Callaghan, Lady Callaghan of Cardiff (née Moulton; 28 July 1913 – 15 March 2005) was the wife of British Prime Minister James Callaghan and was herself a politician and campaigner and fundraiser for children's health and welfare.
She was born in Maidstone, Kent where her father was a director of the Lead Wool Company, a tool company. She would chair Maidstone Labour Party and Fabian Society. She met her future husband in the early 1930s while still in her teens at the Baptist church Sunday school where they both worked, then at the Labour Party, but they did not marry until 1938. They honeymooned in Paris and Chamonix then returned to rent a house in Norwood.
Callaghan was educated at Maidstone Grammar School, then studied cookery at Battersea College of Domestic Science. She worked as a dietician at an antenatal clinic in Greenwich during World War II, a young mother herself. At the same time, she studied economics at a University of London extension course in Eltham, with Hugh Gaitskell as tutor. She made a special study of malnutrition in children and its remedies.
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