Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers, army officer and politician, was buried at Perlethorpe. (1893–1977) William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland, Conservative politician and chancellor of the University of Nottingham, lived at Welbeck Abbey. (1907–1977) Ruth Adam, feminist, was born in Arnold and worked as a schoolteacher. (1913–1997) Hugh Lawson, Common Wealth MP for Skipton (1943–1945), grew up in Nottingham and attended Nottingham High School and Nottingham University College, before holding local-government positions, latterly Director of Leisure Services for Nottinghamshire. (1926–2013) Oswald George Powe Jamaican-born, left-wing political activist, equity activist, Labour Party local councilor. (1930–2010) Ken Coates, left-wing trade-union activist, academic and politician, MEP for East Midlands (1989–99), lived and worked in Nottingham as a sociology student, lecturer in adult education at the University of Nottingham, and director of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. (Born 1932) Jim Lester, Conservative MP for Beeston, then Broxtowe, and a junior minister, was born in Nottingham and educated at Nottingham High School. (Born 1940) Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1993–1997) and MP for Rushcliffe until 2019, was educated at Nottingham High School. (Born 1953) Geoff Hoon, Secretary of State for Defence (1999–2005), Secretary of State for Transport 2008–2009 and MP for Ashfield (1992–2010), was educated at Nottingham High School. (Born 1965) Ed Davey, a politician serving as acting co-Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 13 December 2019, and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston and Surbiton, was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. (Born 1967) Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (2011–2015) and previously MP for Morley and Outwood, grew up in Keyworth and attended Nottingham High School. (Born 1972) Dan Jarvis MBE, Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnsley Central, and Mayor of the Sheffield City Region, was born in Nottingham. (Born 1996) Nadia Whittome is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham East. She was born in Nottingham. Religion (c. 1340/1345–1396) Walter Hilton, mystic and author of The Ladder of Perfection, was a canon of Thurgarton Priory and died there in 1396. (1489–1546) Thomas Cranmer, archbishop and martyr, was born at Aslockton, Nottinghamshire. (c. 1550–1616) Thomas Helwys, co-founder of the Baptist denomination and victim of religious persecution, has a Lenton, Nottingham Baptist church named after him. (1549/1550–1610) Gervase Babington, Anglican theologian and Bishop of Worcester, was born in Nottinghamshire. (1568–1644) William Brewster, postmaster of Scrooby, sailed as one of the Pilgrim Fathers on the Mayflower to Plymouth Colony. (c. 1562 – post-1606) John Darrell,