Robert Lambart Harvey is a British

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 Conservative Party

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 politician, journalist and author.

Robert Harvey has been foreign affairs leader writer for the Daily Telegraph, assistant editor of The Economist

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and a Member of Parliament

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 (MP). He is the author of many books, including a highly popular biography of Lord Cochrane

Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald

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In the Conservative landslide of 1983 general election

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, he was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Clwyd South-West. He became a member of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. He served for one term before his defeat at the 1987 election

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 by the Labour

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 candidate Martyn Jones

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Harvey is the author of several books including:

• Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence
• The Fall of Apartheid: The Inside Story from Smuts to Mbeki

His other books include The War of Wars: The Great European Conflict, 1793-1815, The Undefeated: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Modern Japan, Portugal: Birth of a Democracy, Liberators and Cochrane.

Robert lives in Powys, Wales.

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