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Phillip Whitehead (30 May 1937 – 31 December 2005) was a British
Labour
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politician, television producer and writer.
Early life
Born in
Matlock Bath
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, Derbyshire, he was adopted by a local family in
Rowsley
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It is at the point where the River Wye flows into the River Derwent and prospered from mills on both. The border of the P ...
, and attended
Lady Manners School
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in
Bakewell
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and
Exeter College, Oxford
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, where he obtained his BA degree.
Whitehead went up to Oxford following in his adoptive parents' footsteps as a Conservative. He was President of the
Oxford University Conservative Association
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and the
Oxford Union
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in 1961.
Career
Whitehead was an independent documentary producer in the early 1960s and later an editor with the
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and
ITV
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from 1967 to 1970.
House of Commons
After standing unsuccessfully at
West Derbyshire in
1966
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, he represented
Derby North as a Labour MP from
1970
Events
January
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to
1983
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, when he was defeated by the
Conservative
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Greg Knight
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. He tried to win back the seat in
1987
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but was beaten once again.
Whitehead was a member of several parliamentary committees:
* Member,
Council of Europe
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/
WEU
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* Member,
Annan Committee on the Future of Broadcasting
* Member,
Commons Select Committee on Home Affairs, which abolished '
sus'
* Front Bench Spokesman on Higher Education and the Arts
Back to television
After his defeat at the
1983 general election, Whitehead returned to television as a producer and director. He was also author of several books derived, with the exception of his
Fabian essays, from the television series he produced:
* ''The Writing On The Wall: Britain in the Seventies'' (London: Michael Joseph, 1985);
* ''Dynasty: The Nehrus and the Gandhis'' (1997; with
Jad Adams
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Education
Adams attended Forest Hill School and the University of Sussex where he was influenced by the lectures of radical philosopher Paul Feyerabend on question ...
; )
* contributor to ''Changing States'', Fabian Essays, ''Ruling Dimension''
*''
The Windsors
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—A Dynasty Revealed 1917–2000'' (2000; with
Piers Brendon: ; original 1994: )
* ''Stalin, a Time for Judgement''
In 1988 he was
MacTaggart Memorial Lecturer at the
Edinburgh TV Festival
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.
European Parliament
He was a Labour
member of the European Parliament
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When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
from 1994 to his death, first serving as MEP for
Staffordshire East and Derby, and later as one of the members for the
East Midlands
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.
On 23 July 2004 he was elected chair of the
Parliamentary Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. He was also member of the
European Parliament's African, Caribbean and Pacific Joint Parliamentary Assembly and chair of the
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.
A list of EP committees of which Whitehead was a member:
* Member, EP
Committee for Environment, Public Health, Consumer Protection
* Substitute member, EP
Committee for Culture, Youth, Education, Media
* Chair,
European Parliament Consumer Intergroup
* Member, Vice-President, EP delegation for relations with Czech Republic
* Member, EP delegation to EU Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee
* Member and co-ordinator, EP Committee of Enquiry into BSE
* Chair, European Parliamentary Labour Party
* Member, EP Committee for Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection
* Substitute member, EP
Committee for Culture, Youth, Media and Sport
* Member, EP Temporary Committee on
Foot and Mouth Disease
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* Member, EP delegation for relations with Czech Republic
* Member, Consumer Forum
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Intergroups ...
* Chair,
Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee
* Substitute Member,
Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee
* Member,
ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
* Member, European Parliament delegation for relations with Romania
Other professional memberships held by Whitehead:
* Director, Brook Associates TV production company
* Chair of the
Fabian Society
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* Council member and Chair of the
Consumers' Association
* Chairman of
Statesman-Nation Publications
Death
He retained a close association with
Derbyshire
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, especially the
Bakewell
Bakewell is a market town and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, known also for its local Bakewell pudding. It lies on the River Wye, about 13 miles (21 km) south-west of Sheffield. In the 2011 census, ...
area, throughout his life. Whitehead was taken ill on 31 December 2005 and died later that evening in a hospital in Chesterfield from a heart attack aged 68.
In recognition of his service to the city The Phillip Whitehead Memorial Library, a public library on Chaddesden Park in Derby, was opened in March 2013.
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