Sir James Sidney Rawdon Scott-Hopkins (29 November 1921 – 11 March 1995) was a British

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politician. Born in

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, Scott-Hopkins was educated at

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and the

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. He joined the

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in 1939. He was commissioned in the 3rd QAO Gurkha Rifles in 1942 and served on the North-West Frontier, commanding C Company of the 4th Battalion, and in

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until 1946, having taken a regular commission in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1944. He retired from the Army in 1950 and became a farmer. He married Geraldine Hargreaves in Eton in 1946 (three sons, one daughter). Scott-Hopkins contested Bedwellty in 1955. He was

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(MP) for

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from 1959 until he lost the seat to the

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John Pardoe in 1966. He had served as joint Parliamentary Secretary at MAFF 1962–64. He was re-elected as MP for West Derbyshire at a 1967

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, and served until 1979. His successor was

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. He had served, concurrently (to 1979), as a

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(MEP) from 1979, when he was elected for the

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European constituency, serving until 1994. He was knighted in 1981. He died in

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, aged 73.

References

* ''Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974'' *

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