Peter Michael Jackson (14 October 1928 – 19 February 2020) was a British Labour Party politician. Jackson was born in

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in October 1928, and was educated at a Sheffield Grammar School,

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and

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. He was married to Christine Thomas from 1961 to 1979. At the 1966 general election, he was elected as the

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for the High Peak constituency in

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, ending nearly 56 years of Conservative dominance and was the first ever Labour Party MP for the seat. Jackson sat in the House of Commons for only four years, and lost his seat at the 1970 general election, to the Conservative

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. He was the enthusiastic secretary of the Humanist Parliamentary Group from 1967 to 1970. Jackson was interviewed in 2012 as part of

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's oral history project. He died in February 2020 at the age of 91.Peter Jackson obituary
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Peter Jackson interview with the History of Parliament oral history project
1928 births 2020 deaths High Peak, Derbyshire Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Derbyshire UK MPs 1966–1970 Alumni of Durham University Alumni of the University of Leicester People educated at Sheffield Grammar School {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub