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Name Party Constituency

B

Richard Balfe
Richard Balfe
-Early life:Born in Barton Mills, Mildenhall, Suffolk, Balfe spent time in a children's home in Sheffield. He began working in a bakery in 1960 and joined USDAW...

Lab London South Inner
Robert Battersby
Robert Battersby
Robert Battersby, KSG, CBE was British soldier, linguist, diplomat and politician, who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the constituency of Humberside between 1979 and 1989...

Con
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

Humberside
Christopher Beazley
Christopher Beazley
Christopher John Pridham Beazley is a British politician for the Conservative Party, who served as a Member of the European Parliament 1984–1994 and 1999–2009.-Background:...

Con Cornwall & Plymouth
Peter Beazley
Peter Beazley
Peter George Beazley CBE was a British businessman and politician, who worked for Imperial Chemical Industries for over thirty years...

Con Bedfordshire South
Lord Bethell Con London North West
Beata Brookes
Beata Brookes
Beata Ann Brookes, CBE is a retired British social worker, company secretary and Conservative Party politician. She served ten years as Member of the European Parliament for North Wales, and made several attempts to obtain election to the House of Commons. She has sometimes been nicknamed the...

Con Wales North
Janey Buchan
Janey Buchan
Janey O'Neil Buchan , was a Scottish Labour Member of the European Parliament for the Glasgow constituency from 1979 to 1994 when she retired from the post aged 67....

Lab Glasgow

C

Bryan Cassidy Con Dorset East & Hampshire West
Barbara Castle
Barbara Castle
Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn , PC, GCOT was a British Labour Party politician....

Lab Greater Manchester West
Fred Catherwood
Fred Catherwood
Sir Henry Frederick Ross Catherwood was a UK politician and writer....

Con Cambridgeshire & Bedfordshire North
Kenneth Collins Lab Strathclyde East
Richard Cottrell Con Bristol
Christine Crawley Lab Birmingham East
Bob Cryer
Bob Cryer
George Robert Cryer, known as Bob Cryer was a politician in the United Kingdom.He was educated at Salt High School, Shipley, and the University of Hull...

Lab Sheffield
David Curry
David Curry
David Maurice Curry is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Skipton and Ripon from 1987 to 2010.-Early life:...

Con Essex North East

D

Margaret Daly
Margaret Daly
Margaret Daly was a British Conservative Party politician who represented Somerset and West Dorset in the European Parliament from 1984 to 1994.Daly was a member of various committees including:* Women's Rights Committees...

Con Somerset & Dorset West
John de Courcy Ling
John de Courcy Ling
John de Courcy Ling CBE was a British diplomat, farmer, politician and writer. His Roman Catholic faith contributed to making him a strong internationalist who believed in overseas aid.-Family and personal life:...

Con Midlands Central
Basil de Ferranti
Basil de Ferranti
Basil Reginald Vincent Ziani de Ferranti was a British businessman and a Conservative Party politician. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was the grandson of the electrical engineer and inventor Sebastian de Ferranti.He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1955 general...

Con Hampshire Central
Marquess of Douro
Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Douro
Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley, Marquess of Douro, 10th Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, Grandee of Spain, OBE , is the son and heir of Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, and his wife, Diana McConnel. He was born as Earl of Mornington in 1945, at Princess Christian Nursing Home, Windsor, Berkshire...

Con Surrey West

E

Baroness Elles
Diana Elles, Baroness Elles
Diana Louie Elles, Baroness Elles was a barrister and United Nations representative from the United Kingdom. She was a delegate to the European Parliament for over a decade.-Early years:...

Con Thames Valley
Hon. James Elles
James Elles
James Edmund Moncrieff Elles is a British politician, and Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament for the South East England....

Con Oxford & Buckinghamshire
Michael Elliott Lab London West
Winifred Ewing
Winnie Ewing
Winifred Margaret 'Winnie' Ewing is a Scottish nationalist, lawyer and prominent SNP politician who was formerly a Member of Parliament , Member of the European Parliament and Member of the Scottish Parliament...

SNP
Scottish National Party
The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....

Highlands and Islands

F

Sheila Faith
Sheila Faith
Sheila Faith is a British politician and dental surgeon. She served one term each in the House of Commons and European Parliament as a Conservative...

Con Cumbria & Lancashire North
Alex Falconer
Alex Falconer
Alex C. Falconer is a Labour Party politician in Scotland. He was the Member of the European Parliament for Mid Scotland & Fife from 1984 to 1999.- References :...

Lab Scotland Mid & Fife
Glyn Ford
Glyn Ford
Glyn Ford was a member of the European Parliament initially for Greater Manchester East, until 1999 and then South West England for the Labour Party and Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party....

Lab Greater Manchester East

H

Michael Hindley Lab Lancashire East
Geoff Hoon
Geoff Hoon
Geoffrey "Geoff" William Hoon is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Ashfield from 1992 to 2010...

Lab Derbyshire
Paul Howell
Paul Howell
Paul Frederick Howell was a British politician who served as a Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament for Norfolk from 1979 to 1994.-Biography:...

Con Norfolk
Les Huckfield
Les Huckfield
Leslie John Huckfield is a British Labour politician, who served as Member of Parliament for Nuneaton from 1967 to 1983 and as an MEP from 1984 to 1989....

Lab Merseyside East
Stephen Hughes
Stephen Hughes (politician)
Stephen Skipsey Hughes is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party for the North East England. Representing the Durham constituency between 1984 and 1999, Hughes was elected to its successor constituency in 1999 and re-elected in 2004 and 2009...

Lab Durham
John Hume
John Hume
John Hume is a former Irish politician from Derry, Northern Ireland. He was a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, and was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize, with David Trimble....

SDLP Northern Ireland
Alasdair Hutton
Alasdair Hutton
Alasdair Henry Hutton OBE was a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Member of the European Parliament for the South of Scotland Constituency between 1979 and 1989.-External links:*...

Con Scotland South

J

Caroline Jackson
Caroline Jackson
Caroline Jackson is a politician in the United Kingdom. She was a Member of the European Parliament for the Conservative Party from 1984 to 2009....

Con Wiltshire
Christopher Jackson
Christopher Jackson
Christopher Jackson is a British politician and businessman and Honorary Member of the European Parliament.After a National Service Commission in the RAF as a pilot, Jackson read physics at Magdalen College, Oxford of which he was an Open Exhibitioner. Whilst there he founded the Magnates Club...

Con Kent East

M

John Marshall
John Leslie Marshall
John Leslie Marshall is a British Conservative politician. He was MEP for London North from 1979 to 1989. He lost to Michael Portillo in the selection for the Enfield Southgate byelection in 1984, but was later selected for Hendon South in the London Borough of Barnet and became Member of...

Con London North
David Martin
David Martin (Scottish politician)
David Martin is a British Labour Party politician, and member of the European Parliament for Scotland.He was educated outside of Edinburgh at Liberton High School. He was first elected as a councillor in 1982, and won the Lothians seat in the 1984 European Parliament elections...

Lab Lothians
Michael McGowan
Michael McGowan (politician)
Michael McGowan is a British journalist and a former Member of the European Parliament, with a special interest in international affairs, European politics, Africa, peace, development, and human rights...

Lab Leeds
Hugh McMahon
Hugh McMahon
Hugh McMahon was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Blackpool, Doncaster Rovers, Stoke City and Wrexham.-Blackpool:...

Lab Strathclyde West
Edward McMillan-Scott
Edward McMillan-Scott
Edward Hugh Christian McMillan-Scott is a British Member of the European Parliament and one of the Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament...

Con York
Tom Megahy Lab Yorkshire South West
James Moorhouse
James Moorhouse (politician)
Cecil James Olaf Moorhouse is a British politician and former Member of the European Parliament.He was educated at St Paul's School, London, King's College London and Imperial College London where here took a diploma in advanced aeronautics...

Con London South & Surrey East
David Morris Lab Wales Mid & West

N

Stanley Newens
Stanley Newens
Arthur Stanley Newens, known as Stan Newens, is a former British Labour Co-operative politician. He is a former Member of Parliament and Member of the European Parliament ....

Lab London Central
Edward Newman Lab Greater Manchester Central
Bill Newton Dunn
Bill Newton Dunn
William "Bill" Newton Dunn is a British politician. He is a Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands for the Liberal Democrats.-Early life:...

Con Lincolnshire
Tom Normanton
Tom Normanton
Tom Normanton was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University, and joined the family textile business. He served in the army in the Second World War, reaching the rank of Major...

Con Cheshire East

P

Ian Paisley
Ian Paisley
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, PC is a politician and church minister in Northern Ireland. As the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party , he and Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness were elected First Minister and deputy First Minister respectively on 8 May 2007.In addition to co-founding...

DUP Northern Ireland
Ben Patterson
Ben Patterson
Ben Patterson is an American musician, an artist and one of the founders of the Fluxus movement.-Biography:Born in Pittsburgh May 29, 1934. From 1956 to 1960, he worked as a double bassist at the Halifax Symphony Orchestra , the US Army 7th Army Symphony Orchestra and the Ottawa Philharmonic...

Con Kent West
Andrew Pearce Con Cheshire West
Terry Pitt
Terry Pitt
Terence John Pitt was a British political researcher and adviser. He became well known behind the scenes as the long-serving head of the Labour Party's research department, and worked for other bodies...

Lab Midlands West
Henry Plumb Con Cotswolds
Derek Prag
Derek Prag
Derek Prag is a former British Member of the European Parliament for Hertfordshire. He represented the European People's Party....

Con Hertfordshire
Peter Price
Peter Price (politician)
Peter Nicholas Price is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1979-1994.He was educated at RGS Worcester, Aberdare Boys' Grammar School, the University of Southampton and at King's College London. He served as Conservative MEP for Lancashire West from...

Con London South East
Christopher Prout Con Shropshire & Stafford
James Provan
James Provan
James Lyal Clark Provan is a British farmer, businessman and politician who served four terms as a Member of the European Parliament...

Con Scotland North East

S

James Scott-Hopkins
James Scott-Hopkins
Sir James Sidney Rawdon Scott-Hopkins was a British Conservative Party politician.Born in Croydon, Scott-Hopkins was educated at Eton College and Oxford University. He joined the British Army in 1939...

Con Hereford & Worcester
Barry Seal
Barry Seal (politician)
Barry Seal is a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of the European Parliament for the single-member seat of Yorkshire West from 1979 to 1999...

Lab Yorkshire West
Madron Seligman
Madron Seligman
Madron Seligman was born in Leatherhead, Surrey. He spent most of his career in industry, where he came to understand and support the European Economic Community and was latterly a Member of the European Parliament , winning the West Sussex seat in 1979 by a record margin of 95,484 votes, which...

Con Sussex West
Dr. Alexander Sherlock Con Essex South West
Richard Simmonds Con Wight & Hampshire East
Anthony Simpson
Anthony Simpson
Anthony Simpson is a former Member of the European Parliament.He served as Conservative MEP for Northamptonshire from 1979 until 1994.-References:...

Con Northamptonshire
Llewellyn Smith Lab Wales South East
George Stevenson Lab Staffordshire East
Kenneth Stewart
Kenneth Stewart
Kenneth Stewart , was a Member of the European Parliament for Merseyside West. He represented the seat, for the Labour Party.-Background:...

Lab Merseyside West
Jack Stewart-Clark
Jack Stewart-Clark
Sir Jack Stewart-Clark was a British Member of the European Parliament . He represented the Conservative and Unionist Party in the Group of the European People's Party ....

Con Sussex East

T

John Taylor
John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney
John David Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, PC , is a former Ulster Unionist Party MP and a life peer. He was deputy leader of the UUP from 1995 to 2001, and a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.-Career and family:...

OUP Northern Ireland
John Tomlinson
John Tomlinson, Baron Tomlinson
John Edward Tomlinson, Baron Tomlinson , is a British Labour Co-operative politician. He is currently a life peer in the House of Lords, and was previously a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1979, and an Member of the European Parliament from 1984 to 1999.Born in London, Tomlinson was educated...

Lab Birmingham West
Carole Tongue
Carole Tongue
Carole Tongue, FRSA is a former Member of the European Parliament for London East, , and Deputy Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party, ....

Lab London East
Frederick Tuckman
Frederick Tuckman
Frederick Augustus Tuckman is a former Member of the European Parliament.He served as Conservative MEP for Leicester from 1979 until 1989.He also served as president of the Anglo-Jewish Association.-References:...

Con Leicester
Amédée Turner
Amédée Turner
Amédée Edward Turner QC is a British barrister and politician, who served for fifteen years as a Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament. As an English patent lawyer he worked both in New York and in London...

Con Suffolk

W

Michael Welsh
Michael Welsh (Conservative politician)
Michael John Welsh is a British politician. After three terms in the European Parliament, he is currently serving on Lancashire County Council as Leader of the Conservative Party group.-Early life:...

Con Lancashire Central
Norman West Lab Yorkshire South

1987

  • March 5: Midlands, West--John Bird (Lab), replacing deceased Terry Pitt
    Terry Pitt
    Terence John Pitt was a British political researcher and adviser. He became well known behind the scenes as the long-serving head of the Labour Party's research department, and worked for other bodies...


1988

  • December 15: Hampshire, Central--Edward Kellett-Bowman
    Edward Kellett-Bowman
    Edward Thomas Kellett-Bowman JP is a British business and management consultant. He has also had a political career as a local councillor and as a Member of the European Parliament for the Conservative Party...

     (Con), replacing deceased Basil de Ferranti
    Basil de Ferranti
    Basil Reginald Vincent Ziani de Ferranti was a British businessman and a Conservative Party politician. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was the grandson of the electrical engineer and inventor Sebastian de Ferranti.He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1955 general...

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