Rosalind Retey was the first wife of Hillary Benn.
Rosalind and Hillary Benn met at their university days.
In 1973, whilst at university, Benn married fellow student Rosalind Caroline Retey. She died of cancer, aged 26, in 1979.
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However, Hillary Benn is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Leeds Central since a by-election in 1999. He served in the Cabinet from 2003 to 2010, under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
Benn served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development from 2001 to 2002 and for Prisons and Probations from 2002 to 2003.
He returned to DFID as Minister of State in May 2003. In October 2003, he was appointed to Tony Blair’s Cabinet as the Secretary of State for International Development.
In 2007, Benn was a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, which he lost to Harriet Harman, finishing in fourth place. Benn later served under Gordon Brown as Secretary of State for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs from 2007 to 2010.