Dan Byles
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Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire |
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In office 6 May 2010 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Mike O'Brien |
| Succeeded by | Craig Tracey |
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24 June 1974 Hastings, East Sussex, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Prashanthi Reddy |
| Website | www.danbyles.co.uk |
Daniel Alan Byles FRGS (born 24 June 1974) is an English mountaineer, sailor, ocean rower, polar adventurer and Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire from 2010 to 2015, but did not seek re-election in the 2015 general election.
In 1997 he took part in the first ever Atlantic Rowing Race, the Port St Charles Barbados Atlantic Rowing Race, crossing the Atlantic Ocean unsupported in a 23-foot (7 m) wooden rowing boat in 101 days with his mother Janice Meek. In 2007 he and his mother together with team mate Richard Profit, walked and skied 350 nautical miles (648 km) from Resolute, Nunavut to the Magnetic North Pole in 20 days and 5 hours. He holds two Guinness World Records. Byles is married to Prashanthi Reddy, and they have two daughters.
Byles was born in Hastings, East Sussex, but spent his early childhood as an expatriate in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia before returning to England at age nine to the Cotswold market town of Chipping Norton. Helped by a government funded scholarship, the Assisted Places Scheme, Byles attended Warwick School. Active in the Combined Cadet Force, Byles made an early decision to follow a career in the Military when he won one of ninety Army Sixth Form Scholarships awarded by the Ministry of Defence that year.
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