Bruce Douglas-Mann
| Bruce Douglas-Mann | |
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Member of Parliament for Mitcham and Morden Kensington North (1970–1974) |
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In office 18 June 1970 – 5 May 1982 |
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| Preceded by | George Rogers |
| Succeeded by | Angela Rumbold |
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| Born | 23 June 1927 Bexhill, England |
| Died | 27 July 2000 (aged 73) |
| Political party |
Labour (–1981) Social Democratic (1981–1988) Liberal Democrats (1988–2000) |
| Alma mater | Jesus College, Oxford |
Bruce Leslie Home Douglas-Mann (23 June 1927 – 27 July 2000) was a British politician.
Bruce Douglas-Mann was born at Bexhill, Sussex, the son of a solicitor, Leslie John Douglas-Mann, MC.
Douglas-Mann was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and following national service in the navy, read PPE at Jesus College, Oxford from 1948 to 1951. He qualified as a solicitor in 1954 and served as a councillor on Kensington Borough Council 1962-65 and on the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea from 1964. As a solicitor he specialised in trade union law and claims over industrial accidents and injuries. He also worked on obscenity cases and briefed barrister John Mortimer on the film Last Tango in Paris. He was chairman of the Society of Labour Lawyers from 1974 to 1980.
Douglas-Mann contested St Albans in 1964 and Maldon in 1966 as a Labour candidate. He was elected Member of Parliament for Kensington North in 1970, then for Mitcham and Morden in February 1974.
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