Martin Horwood
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Member of Parliament for Cheltenham |
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In office 5 May 2005 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Nigel Jones |
| Succeeded by | Alex Chalk |
| Majority | 4,920 (9.3%) |
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12 October 1962 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal Democrat |
| Spouse(s) | Dr. Shona Arora |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | The Queen's College, Oxford |
Martin Charles Horwood (born 12 October 1962 in Cheltenham) is a British Liberal Democrat politician.
He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Cheltenham constituency. He was the founder and was the chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tribal Peoples. Martin lost his seat in Parliament in the May 2015 elections gaining only 34% of the vote compared to 46% of the winning candidate Alex Chalk.
He was born in St. Paul's, Cheltenham, in 1962. His parents lived first in St. Mark's and then in Leckhampton, where his mother still lives, joining the Cheltenham Young Liberals while still at Cheltenham College in 1979.
Horwood then went on to The Queen's College, Oxford to read Modern History in 1981, and was elected president of the Oxford Student Liberal Society and then chair of the party's national student wing, the Union of Liberal Students.
After graduating and leaving student politics, he worked first in advertising and then in the voluntary sector. In 1990 he moved to Oxford to work for Oxfam. His teams raised tens of millions of pounds for the poor in developing countries, including £2.5m for victims of the Rwanda genocide.
In 1995 he married Dr Shona Arora. They moved to India for a year, Horwood working for Oxfam and Arora for the UN programme on AIDS and a small charity working on sexual health in the slums of Delhi.
Returning to Britain, he became the first Director of Fundraising at the Alzheimer's Society, the care and research charity for people with dementia and their carers. Horwood led the team that won the charity Tesco Charity of the Year, earning millions for the charity nationwide and £16,000 for the Cheltenham branch alone.
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