Ian Liddell-Grainger
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The Much Honoured Ian Liddell-Grainger MP |
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Member of Parliament for Bridgwater and West Somerset Bridgwater (2001-2010) |
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Assumed office 7 June 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Tom King |
| Majority | 14,583 (26.8%) |
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23 February 1959 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Jill Nesbit |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | www.liddellgrainger.org.uk |
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| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service/branch | Royal Regiment of Fusiliers |
| Years of service | 1980–1997 |
| Rank | Major |
| Unit | 6th Battalion |
Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger (born 23 February 1959) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bridgwater between the 2001 general election and 2010 and the Bridgwater and West Somerset constituency from 2010. He is a great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria.
Liddell-Grainger was born in Edinburgh to David Liddell-Grainger and Anne Liddell-Grainger. He was educated at Wellesley House School in the coastal town of Broadstairs in Kent and Millfield School in the town of Street in Somerset, before gaining a National Certificate of Agriculture at the South Scotland Agricultural College in Edinburgh. Before entering Parliament he ran a 250-acre (1.0 km2) farm in the Scottish Borders from 1980-85 before becoming the managing director of his family's property management and development company.
He was commissioned as a Major in the Territorial Army with the 6th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, commanding the machine-gun Platoon and then X Company of the Battalion in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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