Jill Knight

The Baroness Knight of Collingtree
Knight in 1990
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
23 September 1997 – 24 March 2016
Life peerage
Member of Parliament
for Birmingham Edgbaston
In office
31 March 1966 – 8 April 1997
Preceded byEdith Pitt
Succeeded byGisela Stuart
Personal details
Born
Joan Christabel Jill Christie

(1923-07-09)9 July 1923
Bristol, England
Died6 April 2022(2022-04-06) (aged 98)
Political partyConservative
Spouse
James Montague Knight
(m. 1947; died 1986)
Children2

Joan Christabel Jill Knight, Baroness Knight of Collingtree, DBE (née Christie; 9 July 1923 – 6 April 2022) was a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1966 to 1997. She was created a life peer as "Baroness Knight of Collingtree, of Collingtree in the County of Northamptonshire" in 1997 after she had stood down at that year's general election, and retired from the House of Lords on 24 March 2016.