Alastair heseltine biography of george michael
HESELTINE, Michael (b.1933). - History of Parliament Online!
HESELTINE, Michael (b.1933).
31 March 1966 - 28 February 1974
28 February 1974 - 7 June 2001
Biography
Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine was born in Swansea on 21 March 1933.
Alastair heseltine biography of george michael
He was educated at Shewsbury School and Pembroke College, Oxford. At 18 he joined the Conservative party. He married Anne Harding Williams in 1962.
After leaving Oxford, Hesletine became a commissioned officer in the Welsh Guards.
He afterwards pursued a career in the media, becoming a television interviewer from 1960 to 1964 and the chairman of the Haymarket Press in 1964.
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In his path to Parliament he unsuccessfully contested Gower in 1959 and Coventry North in 1964. He was elected at Tavistock in 1966, which he held until 1974 when he was elected for Henley. He retained the seat until he was made a life peer as Baron Heseltine of Thenford in 2001.
After his first year in the House he joined the front bench.
He served in the Department of Transport, as Junior Minister at the Department of Envi