Sir Robert Anthony Bevis Durant (9 January 1928 – 18 February 2016), also known as Tony Durant, was a British
Conservative Party
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politician.
Political career
Durant stood unsuccessfully for
Rother Valley at the
1970 General Election; the seat was retained for his party by
Labour's Peter Hardy. In 1971 Durant supported Thatcher's decision to end free school milk on the grounds that many children did not like it.
He was the
Member of Parliament
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for
Reading North from 1974 to 1983. After Reading's constituencies underwent boundary changes, he was the Member of Parliament for
Reading West from 1983 to 1997. During his time in the Commons, he acted as a
Whip. Announced in the
1991 New Year Honours
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he was
knighted on 14 February 1991.
In 1994, he successfully campaigned for the lowering of the homosexual age of consent.
[
He retired from politics at the ]1997 UK General Election
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