Councillor Michael Crutchley has lived in Stratford-upon-Avon all his life, being born and raised in Tiddington with his brother and three sisters. He was educated at Alveston Junior School and King Edward VI Grammar School.

Michael married Janet in 1956 at Holy Trinity Church and has two daughters and five grandchildren.

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Revd. Dr. Roy Lodge MBE was educated in Watford and Bristol and is married to Gina, the retired Chair of Governors of Willows C of E School and involved in various community projects. They have one son, a Headmaster living in St Albans and are proud grandparents to two grandchildren.

A former Great Britain International Athlete, he also served for ten years in the T.A.

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Joan Ailsa Florence McFarlane
Liberal Democrat for Alveston since 2006

Joan was born in Birmingham and educated at the Alice Ottley School in Worcester.

She is married to Ian and they have three daughters.

Moving to Stratford in 1978 where they have now settled, Ian’s business career previously involved the family spending varying lengths of time living in Birmingham, Belfast, London and Glasgow.

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Councillor Joy Seaman was born and educated in Bristol. She worked for the Co-operative Insurance Society and by way of ‘an office romance’ met and married her husband Vince, also a Town Councillor until his sudden death in 2009. Married for over 48 years, Joy has three children and six grandchildren.

Career History
Joy started in a secretarial capacity, changed to the retail sector as a demonstrator and beauty consultant and then had ‘time out’ to raise a family. After several house moves due to her husband’s occupation she had a re-think about a future career, and in her 40’s took a teachers’ qualification and taught in both College and local Warwickshire senior schools for over 20 years, finally retiring from supply teaching in 2005.

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Councillor Ian Fradgley was born in Wordsley, Staffordshire and educated in Stourbridge, going on to universities in Birmingham and London.

Whilst at Aston University, he met the daughter of one of his tutors; they married in 1969 and moved to London. His wife, Jenny has been a Town Councillor since 2003 and became Mayor in May 2009.

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