Rima Horton (born on 31 January 1947) is a retired English academic and former Labour Party politician.
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Who is Rima Horton?
Rima Horton is a famous 1947 English former Labour Party councilor on the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council, winning election in 1986.
Devoted to education, she has also worked as a senior lecturer at Kingston University.
Early Life of Rima Horton
Rima Horton was born on 31 January 1947 in Bayswater, London, United Kingdom and she is 77 years old as of 2024.
Rima Elizabeth Horton was born into a working-class family, the third of four children of Elice Irene (née Frame, 1906–1984) and Wilfred Stewart Horton (1905–2003).
Her mother was from Wales while her father was London-born. Horton attended the co-ed private St.
Vincent’s primary school, was the City of London School for Girls, and later the University of Southampton.
She performed in theatre at school and then in several amateur groups, such as the Brook Drama Club which took her to Paris in 1962 when she was only 15.
Fellow members reported that she already had a strong presence and a real talent for directing the group.
At 18, she won the Most Promising Youngster Award at the Southhall Music & Drama Festival, where young Alan Rickman acted beside her.
Rima Horton Career
Horton won election as a Labour Party councilor on the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council in 1986, serving as its Chief Whip and a spokesperson on education during her tenure.
She lost her place on the council in May 2006, as “part of the national shift” (in which there was a swing against Labour, who had been in government nationally for nine years by that point).
She twice ran as a Labour candidate for Parliament, losing to the Conservative candidate both times.
Horton also worked as a senior economics lecturer at Kingston University in London. She retired in 2012.
Horton served on the board of directors of The Making Place, a children’s charity.
She was appointed in 2002 and stepped down in 2005. She has also served on the board of trustees of the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill.
Rima Horton Personal Life
Rima Horton is married. When Horton met Rickman, she was 18 and he was 19 years old. At the time, Rickman was an aspiring actor.
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he gained widespread fame for portraying characters like Hans Gruber in ‘Die Hard’ (1988), and Sheriff of Nottingham in ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’ (1991).
Despite this, he further appeared as P.L. O’Hara in ‘An Big Adventure’ (1995), Alexander Dane in ‘Galaxy Quest’ (1999), Harry in ‘Love Actually’ (2003), Marvin the Paranoid Android in ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005), and Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series.
Rickman was an Emmy, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award winner.
Horton and Rickman began living together in 1977. In 2015, Rickman told the media that the reports of his and Horton’s wedding were indeed true.
They had tied the knot in a private ceremony in New York City in 2012.
The couple did not have any children. Rickman was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in August 2015 and passed away on January 14, 2016, in London.
He was 69 years old at the time. He was subsequently cremated on 3 February and his ashes were received by Horton.
Now, if we talk about her social media presence, then it comes out that she isn’t available there with any of her official accounts.
Rima Horton Net Worth
Rima Horton has a net worth of $10 million USD. English former Labour Party councilor’ net worth is believed to be more than $10 million as of 2024 according to online sources.
She has collected this worth from her professional career. She has worked as a Labour Party councilor.
Rima has collected a decent salary for the benefit of the party. On the other hand, Rima’s husband late actor Alan Rickman had an estimated net worth of around $16 million.
Her late husband has collected hefty worth working in the entertainment field. He has left an estate worth £4 million to his wife according to the celebrity net worth.
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The Bottom Line
Horton was a contributor to The Elgar Companion to Radical Political Economy in 1994, penning a piece titled “Inequality”.
In it, she posed three questions: whether people are “naturally equal in essence”; whether and when the redistribution of wealth is justified; and, if so, how much is “fair”?
She cited “much recent work” suggesting that health status and mortality rates in developed countries “actually depends on the distribution of income”.
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