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Bernard John Hayhoe, Baron Hayhoe, (8 August 1925 – 7 September 2013) was a British
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politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1992.


Early life

Hayhoe was born in
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on 8 August 1925, and attended Stanley Technical School,
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. He left school at 16 to take up an apprenticeship in a toolroom and studied at Borough Polytechnic. He then joined the
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as a weapons engineer in the armaments department and later moved to the Inspectorate of Armaments.Telegraph Obituary
Retrieved 10 September 2013


Political career

Hayhoe was elected the national chairman of the Young Conservatives in 1952 and left the civil service to contest Lewisham South at the 1964 election. He then worked for the
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. He was selected as the candidate for Heston and Isleworth for the 1970 election in place of Reader Harris, who was then facing criminal charges. Although Harris was acquitted before the election, Hayhoe remained the candidate. Hayhoe was the Member of Parliament for Heston and Isleworth from
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until February 1974, then for Brentford and Isleworth from February 1974 until he retired at the 1992 general election. He had ministerial responsibility for the
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(1979–1981), the Civil Service Department (1981), the
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(1981–1985) and the
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(1985–1986). He was on the moderate, left wing of the party and supported
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in his leadership challenge to
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. He was appointed as a Privy Councillor in 1985,
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in 1987 and made a
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on 21 August 1992 as Baron Hayhoe, of Isleworth in the
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Personal life and death

In 1962, Hayhoe married Anne Thornton (d. 2012), and they had three children. He died from
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at his
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home on 7 September 2013, at the age of 88.


References

*Times Guide to the House of Commons 1987 * *
Telegraph Obituary Lord Hayhoe


External links

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