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Gerald Fowler


Gerald Teasdale Fowler (1 January 1935 – 1 May 1993), commonly known as Gerry Fowler, was a British Labour Party politician and university academic.

Fowler was the son of James A. Fowler (died 1964) of Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, and his wife Alfreda.

Fowler was educated at Northampton Grammar School (where he was a friend of Bernard Donoughue) Lincoln College, Oxford, and Frankfurt University. He was a university lecturer, a councillor on Oxford City Council 1960-64 and branch secretary of the Oxford branch of ASSET.

Fowler contested Banbury at the 1964 general election. At the 1966 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the marginal seat of The Wrekin, with a majority of 846 votes and poster slogan of "follow Fowler" but lost it at the 1970 election to the Conservative candidate Anthony ('Tony') Trafford. He regained his seat at the next opportunity in February 1974 and held it in October 1974. However, at the 1979 general election he was defeated again, this time by the Conservative Warren Hawksley.


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