Barbara Williamson obituary

My mother, Barbara Williamson, who has died aged 81, was an Oxford University careers adviser, retiring as deputy head of the service, and the second woman to chair the bench of Oxford magistrates. But she was also an advocate for social and church-related causes and played important professional and pastoral roles in the communities in Oxfordshire where she lived most of her adult life.

Barbara supported her husband, the Rev Tony Williamson, through his career as a car factory worker, Church of England priest and Oxford politician for the Labour party, of which she was also a lifelong member. She was lady mayoress of Oxford in 1982-83 when Tony was lord mayor.