Jacques Arnold
DL (born 27 August 1947) is a
Conservative Party
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Political parties called The Conservative P ...
politician in the United Kingdom. He was the
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Gravesham
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Gravesham was formed on 1 April 1974 by ...
in
Kent
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from
1987
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, when he succeeded
Tim Brinton
Timothy Denis Brinton (24 December 1929 – 22 March 2009) was a British broadcaster and Conservative Party politician. The son of a neurologist, he was educated at Summer Fields School in Summertown, Oxford, followed by Eton College and the Uni ...
, until he lost his seat in the landslide
1997 election. He is now a consultant and lecturer on
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
n Affairs, and is the author of two-book series on political and genealogical subjects. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Kent in January 2013.
Unlike many of his fellow former Tory MPs, he refought the seat at the
2001 election – only to come second place to
Labour
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* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
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's
Chris Pond
Christopher Richard Pond (born 25 September 1952) is a former Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Gravesham in Kent, from 1997 to 2005.
Early life
He went to the Minchenden School (became compre ...
. The Tories regained the seat in
2005
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with
Adam Holloway
Adam James Harold Holloway (born 29 July 1965) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gravesham since 2005. He served as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from September to October 2022, and as A ...
becoming the MP, the first time since the
1951 general election that the seat had not been held by the winning party.
Biography
Jacques Arnold was educated at schools in
Brazil
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, before returning to England in 1968, to attend the
London School of Economics
, mottoeng = To understand the causes of things
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £240.8 million (2021)
, budget = £391.1 millio ...
, where he attained a BSc(Econ)(Hons.). During that period he was Chairman of LSE Conservatives, the student society.
Career
Jacques Arnold started his career with
Hill Samuel
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& Co., merchant bankers, in the
City of London
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.
Between 1976 and 1978 he lived in
São Paulo
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, where he established the Representative Office of
Midland Bank
Midland Bank Plc was one of the Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century. It is now part of HSBC. The bank was founded as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836. It ...
Limited, serving as the Deputy Representative.
Returning to Britain, he was from 1978 to 1983 he was Regional Director of
Thomas Cook
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Bankers, with responsibilities for
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
,
Iberia
The Iberian Peninsula (),
**
* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
**
**
* french: Péninsule Ibérique
* mwl, Península Eibérica
* eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defi ...
and
Africa
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, setting up new operations in
São Paulo
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,
Buenos Aires
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,
Mexico City
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and
Caracas
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, and running large established businesses in Spain,
Portugal
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, South Africa,
Nigeria
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and
Libya
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. He was then successively Assistant Trade Finance Director of Midland Bank, and a Director of
American Express
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Europe Ltd.
During that period he won the
Oundle
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division of
Northamptonshire County Council
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, and served as County Councillor from 1981 to 1985. He was Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for
Coventry South East in 1983. In 1982 he succeeded Christopher Horne as Chairman of
Hyde Park
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Places
England
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* Hyde Park, Leeds, an inner-city area of north-west Leeds
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Austra ...
Tories, the Conservative team at
Speakers' Corner
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.
He was a Parliamentary Private Secretary to
David Maclean
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Early and later life
Born in Scotland, Maclean was educated at F ...
,
Minister of State for the Environment, and then at the
Home Office, from 1992 to 1995. He was a Member of the
Education
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and
Treasury
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*A government department related to finance and taxation, a finance ministry.
*A place or location where treasure, such as currency or precious items are kept. These can be state or royal property, church treasure or in p ...
Select Committees. He was Chairman of the Conservative backbench committee on Constitutional Affairs, and Secretary of the Conservative backbench committee on
Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs. He was a member of the executive committee of the British Group, Inter-Parliamentary Union.
He also became chairman of both the
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
ian and
Portuguese
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Parliamentary Groups, and Secretary of the British Latin American Parliamentary Group. He was an official parliamentary observer at the 1988
Chile
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an plebiscite, and also for the first elections in both
Angola
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and
Mozambique
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. He addressed a committee of the
Brazilian Congress
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Bicameralism is a type of ...
in
Brasília
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during the constitutional crisis of 1992. He was a member of the
Argentine
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British Conference, which brought the countries back together after the
Falklands War
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.
Since leaving the
House of Commons
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he has been Adviser to a number of major companies with interests in Latin America, notably
BAE Systems
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, and FIRST Magazine.
He also lectures on Latin America. He was Chairman of the Tonbridge & Malling Conservative Association, 2012–16. He is the author of two series of books: "A History of Britain’s Parliamentary Constituencies", and "The Royal Houses of Europe" a genealogical work.
Jacques Arnold is married to Patricia, and they have a son and two daughters. He is a Grand Official of the Brazilian National
Order of the Southern Cross
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and a
Deputy Lieutenant of Kent.
References
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Alumni of the London School of Economics
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Members of the Bow Group
Deputy Lieutenants of Kent
UK MPs 1987–1992
UK MPs 1992–1997
1947 births
Living people
Members of Northamptonshire County Council