Bernard John Hayhoe, Baron Hayhoe, (8 August 1925 – 7 September 2013) was a British

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politician.

Early life

He was born in Surrey and attended Stanley Technical School,

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. He left school at 16 to take up an apprenticeship in a toolroom and studied at Borough Polytechnic. He then joined the Ministry of Supply as a weapons engineer in the armaments department and later moved to the Inspectorate of Armaments.Telegraph Obituary
Retrieved 10 September 2013

Political career

Hayhoe was elected the national chairman of the Young Conservatives in 1952 and left the civil service to contest Lewisham South at the 1964 election. He then worked for the

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. He was selected as the candidate for Heston and Isleworth for the 1970 election in place of Reader Harris, who was then facing criminal charges. Although Harris was acquitted before the election, Hayhoe remained the candidate. Hayhoe was the

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for Heston and Isleworth from

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until

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, then for Brentford and Isleworth from February 1974 until he retired at the 1992 general election. He had ministerial responsibility for the

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(1979–1981), the Civil Service Department (1981), the Civil Service (1981–1985) and the

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(1985–1986). He was on the moderate, left wing of the party and supported

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in his leadership challenge to

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. He was appointed as a Privy Councillor in 1985, knighted in 1987 and made a life peer on 21 August 1992 as Baron Hayhoe, of Isleworth in the

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References

*Times Guide to the House of Commons 1987 * *
Telegraph Obituary Lord Hayhoe

External links

* 1925 births 2013 deaths Alumni of London South Bank University Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Conservative Party (UK) life peers Knights Bachelor Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom UK MPs 1970–1974 UK MPs 1974 UK MPs 1974–1979 UK MPs 1979–1983 UK MPs 1983–1987 UK MPs 1987–1992 Civil servants in the Ministry of Supply {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1920s-stub