# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-lidington
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:30:52.481Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-lidington"
name: "David Lidington"
slug: "david-lidington"
description: "Sir David Roy Lidington is a British former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aylesbury from 1992 until 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office from 2018 to 2019 and was frequently described as being Theresa May's de facto Deputy Prime Minister."
tagline: "British politician (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Mr_David_Lidington_crop_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1956-06-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump