Peter Bottomley
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Sir Peter Bottomley MP |
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Member of Parliament for Worthing West |
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Assumed office 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency created |
| Majority | 16,855 (33.2%) |
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Member of Parliament for Eltham Woolwich West (1975–1983) |
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In office 26 June 1975 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | William Hamling |
| Succeeded by | Clive Efford |
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30 July 1944 Newport, Shropshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Virginia Garnett |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Religion | Church of England |
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Official website parliament..peter-bottomley |
Sir Peter James Bottomley (born 30 July 1944) is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as a Member of Parliament since 1975. He has represented the Worthing West constituency since 1997.
Bottomley was born in Newport, Shropshire, the son of Sir James Bottomley, a wartime British Army officer who later made his career in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and of Barbara, née Vardon, a social worker. He was baptized at St Swithun's parish church at Cheswardine where his parents had married. After seven school changes before the age of eleven, he was educated at a junior high school in Washington, D.C. and then Westminster School before reading economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, following his father, grandfather, father-in-law and father-in-law's father to the College. His supervisor was James Mirrlees, who later gained the Nobel prize for Economics. Before university he worked around Australia including three weeks teaching at Geelong Grammar School and unloading trucks in Melbourne docks. In between, he spent a week in Mt. Field with Tenzing Norgay and Jenny Smithies of Launceston Methodist Ladies College. After university, he became a lorry driver and joined the Transport and General Workers Union before moving on to industrial sales and industrial relations. In the early 1970s he co-founded the Neighbourhood Council in South Lambeth, resulting in the creation of football pitches and other facilities at Larkhall Park. His last job before entering Parliament was putting lights outside theatres and cinemas in London's West End.
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