Sir John Michael Gorst (28 June 1928 – 31 July 2010) was a British

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politician. He was educated at Ardingly College and read French and History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1953 he joined the advertising department of Pye Ltd. At the 1964 general election he fought

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and in 1966, he was again an unsuccessful candidate in the Bodmin constituency in

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, losing to the sitting

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MP,

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. At the 1970 general election, he was elected MP for Hendon North, holding the seat until it was abolished by boundary changes in 1997. In December 1996, he resigned the Conservative whip in protest at the closure of a casualty unit at a local hospital. This deprived John Major of his parliamentary majority. In the 1997 general election, he stood in the new seat of Hendon, losing to

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. He was the great-grandson of Sir

John Eldon Gorst Sir John Eldon Gorst, (24 May 1835 – 4 April 1916) was a British lawyer and politician. He served as Solicitor General for England and Wales from 1885 to 1886 and as Vice-President of the Committee on Education between 1895 and 1902. Backg ...

. Gorst married Noël Rossana, a ballerina, in 1954.

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