Ian Gow
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Ian Gow TD |
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| Minister of State for the Treasury | |
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In office 2 September 1985 – 19 November 1985 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Barney Hayhoe |
| Succeeded by | Peter Brooke |
| Minister for Housing | |
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In office 13 June 1983 – 2 September 1985 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | John Stanley |
| Succeeded by | John Patten |
| Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister |
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In office 4 May 1979 – 13 June 1983 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Roger Stott |
| Succeeded by | Michael Alison |
| Member of Parliament for Eastbourne |
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In office 28 February 1974 – 30 July 1990 |
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| Preceded by | Charles Stuart Taylor |
| Succeeded by | David Bellotti |
| Personal details | |
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Ian Reginald Edward Gow 11 February 1937 London, United Kingdom |
| Died | 30 July 1990 (aged 53) Hankham, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Jane Elizabeth Packe (m. 1966–1990; his death) |
| Children | 2 |
| Occupation | Solicitor |
| Religion | Anglican (Anglo-Catholic) |
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| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 British Army
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| Years of service | 1955–1976 |
| Rank | Major |
| Unit | 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars |
Ian Reginald Edward Gow, TD, MP (/ɡaʊ/; 11 February 1937 – 30 July 1990) was a British Conservative politician and solicitor. While serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastbourne, he was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), who exploded a bomb under his car outside his home in East Sussex. He was the last to be killed in a string of British politicians assassinated by the IRA, and the most recent sitting MP to be killed before the June 2016 murder of Jo Cox.
Ian Gow was born at 3 Upper Harley Street, London, the son of Alexander Edward Gow, a London doctor attached to St Bartholomew's Hospital who died in 1952. Ian Gow was educated at Winchester College, where he was president of the debating society. During a period of national service from 1955 to '58 he was commissioned in the 15th/19th Hussars and served in Northern Ireland, Germany and Malaya. He subsequently served in the territorial army until 1976, reaching the rank of Major.
After completing national service he took up a career in the law and qualified as a solicitor in 1962. He eventually became a partner in the London practice of Joynson-Hicks and Co. He also became a Conservative Party activist. He stood for Parliament in the Coventry East constituency for the 1964 general election, but lost to Richard Crossman. He then stood for the Clapham constituency, a Labour-held London marginal seat, in the 1966 general election. An account in The Times of his candidature described him in the following terms: "He is a bachelor solicitor, aged 29, wearing his public school manner as prominently as his rosette. Words such as 'overpowering', 'arrogant', and 'bellicose' are used to describe him."
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