Robert Ernest Bean (5 September 1935 – 7 December 1987) was a British Labour Party politician and

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lecturer. Having served as a councillor and fought Gillingham in

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and Thanet East in

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, Bean was elected

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for the marginal

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seat in the October of that year, ousting the

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incumbent

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. At the 1979 general election, when the

s returned to government under

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, Fenner regained the seat. Bean was beaten by Fenner again at the new Medway seat in

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, and he died in 1987 at the age of 52. He left his beloved family of a wife, daughter and son. Nowadays he would have two granddaughters and two grandsons.

References

*''Times Guide to the House of Commons 1979'' *

External links

* 1935 births 1987 deaths Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1974–1979 Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians-sponsored MPs {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub