Harvey Proctor
| Harvey Proctor | |
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| Member of Parliament for Billericay |
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In office 9 June 1983 – 11 June 1987 |
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| Preceded by | New Constituency |
| Succeeded by | Teresa Gorman |
| Member of Parliament for Basildon |
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In office 3 May 1979 – 9 June 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Eric Moonman |
| Succeeded by | David Amess |
| Personal details | |
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16 January 1947 Pontefract |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
Keith Harvey Proctor (born 16 January 1947) is a former British Conservative Member of Parliament. A member of the Monday Club, he represented Basildon from 1979 to 1983 and Billericay from 1983 to 1987. Proctor became embroiled in a scandal involving sex workers which ended his parliamentary career.
Proctor's father Albert was a master baker. Harvey Proctor himself was born in Pontefract in West Yorkshire, going to the Scarborough High School for Boys and then the University of York where he read History. He had joined the Young Conservatives at the age of 14 in 1961 and was chairman of York University Conservative Association in 1967–1969. In the summer of 1967, while chairman-elect of the association, he was invited to produce a number of half-hour political programmes for broadcast on offshore Radio 270, which included interviews with MPs John Biggs-Davison and Patrick Wall.
Proctor became an active member of the Monday Club. He was the club's assistant director from 1969 to 1971 and a member of its executive council from 1983 until he stood down as an MP in 1987. In 1973 he moved to purge members of the National Front from the Monday Club.
In 1972, Proctor, then working as a researcher for anti-Common Market Conservative MPs who tried to stop Britain entering the Common Market, was adopted as candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch. He fought the seat at both the February and October general elections of 1974.
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