John Osborn (politician)

John Holbrook Osborn (born December 14, 1922 in Sheffield , † December 2, 2015 in Nottinghamshire ) was a British Conservative Party politician who represented the constituency of Sheffield Hallam as a member of the House of Commons for almost 28 years and was also a member between 1975 and 1979 of the European Parliament .

Life

Osborn, whose maternal grandfather Arthur Holbrook in the 1920s for eight years the constituency of Basingstoke represented as a deputy in the lower house, completed after attending the prestigious Rugby School to study at Trinity Hall of the University of Cambridge . During the Second World War he did military service in the Royal Corps of Signals of the British Army in West Africa before he worked for Samuel Osborn & Co Ltd , his family company, after the war . A few years later he began his political engagement in the Conservative Party and was between 1949 and 1953 chairman of the youth association Young Conservative and Liberal Association of Hillsborough , a district of Sheffield.

In the general election of October 8, 1959 , Osborn ran for the first time for a member of the House of Commons as the successor to his party friend Roland Jennings for the Conservative Tories in the constituency of Sheffield Hallam . He received 28,747 votes (62.8%), while his opponent from the Labor Party , Solomon Sachs, 11,938 votes (26.1%) and the opponent from the Liberal Party , Bernard Roseby, 5119 votes (11.2%) got. Osborn thus clearly won with a majority of 16,809 votes. He represented the constituency for almost 28 years in the House of Commons before he renounced a new candidacy in the general election of June 11, 1987 and was replaced by his fellow party member Irvine Patnick .

Osborn was 1963-1964 Parliamentary Private Secretary (Parliamentary Private Secretary) of Duncan Sandys , the then Minister for Relations with the Commonwealth of Nations (Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations) and Colonial Secretary (Secretary of State for the Colonies) in the cabinet of Prime Minister Alec Douglas -Home . During his long term membership in the House of Commons, he was also a member of various Standing Committees (Select Committees) such as for Science and Technology as well as for Education, Science and the Arts.

In 1975, Osborn became a member of the European Parliament as the representative of Great Britain and was a member of this until the first European elections in 1979 . At the same time he was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU).

For his longstanding political services, he was beaten to a Knight Bachelor in 1983 and from then on carried the suffix "Sir".

Web links

• John Osborn at Hansard (English)
• The House of Commons Constituencies. Leigh Rayment Peerage, October 13, 2014, accessed January 18, 2015 (entry on Hallam constituency, Sheffield ). 
• Osborn, John (b.1922). The History of Parliament, accessed January 18, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Osborn