About Tessa

Tessa is the Liberal Democrat MP for the Wells Constituency.   Tessa was born in 1959. Initially convent educated, she attended a girls' grammar school before finishing her education at an independent school and college.   Tessa has two teenage children, one of whom attends the Kings of Wessex School in Cheddar, the other Nottingham Trent University.   Tessa was the candidate for Suffolk South in the 2001 General Election and for Ipswich in the November 2001 Parliamentary by-election.   Amongst her many interests, she is Co-Chair of The Mid-Somerset Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, a member of the Wedmore Green Group and the Sustainable Axbridge Network, Associate Governor of a local Middle School and a member of Wells, Wedmore, Burnham and Highbridge Town Twinning Associations.   Tessa lives on the outskirts of Mark on the Somerset Levels and has been a vegetarian for over thirty years. She lists among her many hobbies listening to music and radio, walking, cooking for friends, East African history, reading and researching her family's history.   She wants to learn to windsurf better.