Richard Body

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Richard Bernard Frank Stewart Body Kt (born May 18, 1927 in Buckinghamshire - † February 26, 2018 ) was a British lawyer and Conservative Party politician who was an intermittent member of the House of Commons for 39 years .

Life

Studies and unsuccessful candidacies for the lower house

Body completed after visiting the Reading School studying law and took to his legal approval in 1949 working as a barrister on.

Already in the elections of February 23, 1950 , he ran as a 23-year-old for the Conservative Party in the constituency Rotherham for a parliamentary seat, but clearly defeated with 14,744 votes (30.5 percent) of his rival candidate John Henry Jones of the Labor Party , on the 31,211 votes (64.4 percent) were cast. In the subsequent elections of October 25, 1951 , he ran in the Abertillery constituency , but was also subject to the constituency candidate of the Labor Party, Llywelyn Williams , who had won this constituency for the first time in a by-election on November 23, 1950. A candidacy in the Leek constituency was also unsuccessful.

Member of the House of Commons and Eurosceptic

In the general election of May 26, 1955 , Body was elected to the House of Commons for the first time at the age of 28 on his fourth candidacy for the Conservative Tories , in the constituency of Billericay . There he was able to prevail with 24,327 votes (54.73 percent) clearly against his opponent from the Labor Party, Brian Ralph Clapham, who received 20,121 votes (45.27 percent). However, he decided not to run again in the subsequent elections on October 8, 1959 , in order to return to his practice as a lawyer.

Six years later he decided to run again for the House of Commons and was elected in the elections of March 31, 1966 in the constituency of Holland with Boston as Herbert Butcher's successor to the House of Commons. In his first election he received 26,683 votes (50.3 percent) and was able to prevail with only 316 votes against the Labor candidate RH Hickman, who received 26,367 votes (49.7 percent). In the subsequent elections he was re-elected in this constituency, which was renamed after a reorganization of the constituencies for the May 1, 1997 elections in Boston and Skegness . In the general election on June 7, 2001 , he decided not to run again and resigned from the House of Commons after 39 years in parliament.

While he was a member of the House of Commons, Body was particularly concerned with issues relating to organic agriculture and was also a staunch advocate of animal welfare .

1986 Body was beaten for his services to the Knight Bachelor and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". His EU skepticism came when he became one of the so-called express Maastricht Rebels against the European policy of Prime Minister John Major and the signing of the Maastricht Treaty agreed on 7 February 1992, and after its entry into force in 1994 as Parliamentary Secretary ( Whip ) the fraction of Conservative Party resigned.

His successor as MP for the Boston and Skegness constituency was Mark Simmonds , who was Parliamentary Undersecretary at the State Department between 2012 and 2014 during the tenure of Prime Minister David Cameron .

Body died on February 26, 2018 at the age of 90.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary , accessed March 14, 2018
  2. ^ Obituary Richard Body. In: legacy.com. March 15, 2018, accessed March 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Body, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Body, Richard Bernard Frank Stewart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Buckinghamshire
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 2018