Nick de Bois | |
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Member of Parliament for Enfield North |
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In office 6 May 2010 – 7 May 2015 |
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Preceded by | Joan Ryan |
Succeeded by | Joan Ryan |
Personal details | |
Born |
Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK |
23 February 1959
Nationality | English |
Political party | Conservatives |
Spouse(s) | Helen de Bois |
Geoffrey Nicholas de Bois (born 23 February 1959) is a British Conservative Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Enfield North, defeating the Labour incumbent MP Joan Ryan. Ryan regained the seat at the next general election, in May 2015.
De Bois has four adult children.
Educated at the private Culford School, de Bois has a Higher National Diploma (HND) in business studies from Cambridge College of Arts and Technology and is a fan of Liverpool Football Club. He was managing director of Rapiergroup, a marketing communications company, where he began work in the mid-1980s, after a brief spell in Public Relations with the Advertising Standards Authority.
De Bois had contested the Enfield North constituency in the 2001 and the 2005 general elections, taking second place to Joan Ryan on both occasions. He also stood unsuccessfully for Stalybridge and Hyde in 1997.