to European Union questions. Edward Pearce wrote in his Guardian obituary of Shore that "he had now become a right-wing figure, cluckingly approved of by Conservatives". Tony Blair selected him as a senior Labour statesman as his nominee for the Committee on Standards in Public Life when it was set up in 1994. Backbenches, retirement and death After several attempts in his constituency party to deselect him, he finally stood down from the House of Commons at the 1997 general election, and in the dissolution honours he was made a life peer, being created Baron Shore of Stepney, of Stepney in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on 5 June 1997. His book Separate Ways (2000) advocated a multi-speed Europe, with some countries as merely associate members, so as to allow the centre to forge a political union at its own pace. He died in 2001, aged 77. Family On 27 September 1948, Shore married Dr Elizabeth Catherine Wrong, daughter of the historian Edward Murray Wrong. Known as Liz, she was the Deputy Chief Medical Officer of England from 1977 to 1985, and in this role and later positions she championed women's career progression in medicine. They had two daughters, Thomasina and Tacy, both retired teachers, and two sons, Crispin, who is Professor of Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Piers, who died in 1977. Elizabeth Catherine Wrong Shore died in 2022. References Bibliography Entitled to Know, MacGibbon & Kee (1966) Europe: the way back, Fabian Society (1973) Leading the Left, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1993) Separate Ways, Duckworth (2000) Archives Catalogue of the Shore papers at the Archives Division of the London School of Economics. External links |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1924 births 2001 deaths Alumni of King's College, Cambridge British Secretaries of State for the Environment Labour Party (UK) life peers Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom People educated at Quarry Bank High School Politicians from Liverpool Transport and General Workers' Union-sponsored MPs UK MPs 1964–1966 UK MPs 1966–1970 UK MPs 1970–1974 UK MPs 1974 UK MPs 1974–1979 UK MPs 1979–1983 UK MPs 1983–1987 UK MPs 1987–1992 UK MPs 1992–1997 Parliamentary Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister People from Great Yarmouth Chairs of the Fabian Society Presidents of the Board of Trade Ministers in the Wilson governments,