Kathleen Dalyell

Kathleen Mary Agnes Dalyell (née Wheatley; 17 November 1937 – 27 December 2025) was a Scottish conservationist and supporter of the Labour Party. She was the wife of Tam Dalyell, a Labour Member of Parliament (MP).

Early career and marriage Kathleen Wheatley was born in 1937. Her father was Lord Wheatley, a judge, a Lord Justice Clerk and a Labour MP. Her great-uncle was John Wheatley, a Labour MP on the left of the party, and health minister in the Ramsay Macdonald government. She was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Aberdeen before going to Edinburgh University to read history. Like her future husband, she trained to be a teacher. She taught at schools in Glasgow and Edinburgh, including a period at James Gillespie's High School, the setting for the novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.