Sir Roger Denis Moate (12 May 1938
– 15 April 2019) was a
Conservative
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politician in the
United Kingdom
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.
Biography
Moate was educated at
Latymer Upper School
(Slowly Therefore Surely)
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Hammersmith and was an insurance broker.
He first stood for Parliament for the
Faversham
Faversham is a market town in Kent, England, from London and from Canterbury, next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. It is close to the A2, which follows an ancient Briti ...
constituency at the
1966 general election,
losing to
Labour
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** Manual labour, physical work
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's
Terence Boston. When the
Redcliffe-Maud Report
The Redcliffe-Maud Report (Cmnd. 4040) was published in 1969 by the '' Royal Commission on Local Government in England'', under the chairmanship of Lord Redcliffe-Maud. Although the commission's proposals were broadly accepted by the Labour gove ...
was campaigned against by rural district councils, Swale R.D.C. was forced to opt out of the campaign due to the similarity of "R.E. Mote" with its then-prospective candidate R. D. Moate.
By coincidence, Moate had moved the motion opposing Redcliffe-Maud at the Conservative Party conference.
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He was elected
Member of Parliament
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for Faversham at the
1970 general election,
and served as MP until 1997. He was a member of the
select committee on Agriculture from 1995 to 1997.
Moate was a staunch
Eurosceptic who had opposed Britain's entry into the
European Economic Community in the early 1970s and who kept a 'roll of honour' of the 41 Conservative MPs who had voted against joining the EEC in 1971.
He was still hostile to the EEC in the early 1990s, becoming one of the '
Maastricht Rebels
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' who repeatedly voted against the Government's attempts to ratify the
Maastricht Treaty
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.
At the
1997 election, the Faversham constituency was split to form
Faversham and Mid Kent and
Sittingbourne and Sheppey. Moate contested the latter seat, but lost to the Labour candidate,
Derek Wyatt.
Meanwhile, the former seat was retained for the Conservatives.
Moate was
knight
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ed in 1993 and lived in
Newnham, near
Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is an industrial town in Kent, south-east England, from Canterbury and from London, beside the Roman Watling Street, an ancient British trackway used by the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons and next to the Swale, a strip of sea separa ...
, before moving to Faversham, where he died at home from cancer in April 2019, aged 80.
He was married twice and had three children.
Telegraph: Sir Roger Moate, robustly Eurosceptic and long-serving Tory MP unwittingly caught up in the ‘War of Jennifer’s Ear’ – obituary
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1938 births
2019 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Moate,Roger
UK MPs 1970–1974
UK MPs 1974
UK MPs 1974–1979
UK MPs 1979–1983
UK MPs 1983–1987
UK MPs 1987–1992
UK MPs 1992–1997
People educated at Latymer Upper School
People from Faversham
People from Newnham, Kent
British Eurosceptics
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