Peter Hordern
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The Right Honourable Sir Peter Maudslay Hordern DL PC |
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Member of Parliament for Horsham |
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In office 15 October 1964 – 28 February 1974 |
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| Preceded by | Frederick Gough |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
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Member of Parliament for Horsham and Crawley |
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In office 28 February 1974 – 9 June 1983 |
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| Preceded by | New constituency |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
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Member of Parliament for Horsham |
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In office 9 June 1983 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | New constituency |
| Succeeded by | Francis Maude |
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| Born | 18 April 1929 |
| Political party | Conservative |
Sir Peter Maudslay Hordern, DL, PC (born 18 April 1929) is a British Conservative Party politician.
Hordern was born on 18 April 1929 and was the son of Captain Charles Hubert Hordern MBE and grandson of Rt. Rev. Hugh Maudslay Hordern (Bishop of Lewes). He was educated at Geelong Grammar School, Australia and Christ Church, Oxford. He served with the 60th Rifles from 1947 to 1949, joining the regiment of his father and great-uncle, Brig. General Gwyn Venables Hordern CMG, CB, JP. He then became a Member of the .
Hordern served as Member of Parliament for Horsham from 1964 to 1974, for Horsham and Crawley from 1974 to 1983 and for Horsham once again from 1983 to 1997. He was appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1993. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for West Sussex. He was a member of the Public Accounts Committee from 1970 to 1987, Chairman of the Finance Committee from 1970 to 1972 and Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission from 1988 to 1997. He was appointed to the Executive of the 1922 Committee in 1967, later becoming Secretary of the 1922 Committee and Chairman of the Conservative backbench Committee on Europe.
Colin Welch described him as "the ablest Tory never to have been a minister". Andrew Roth's Parliamentary Profiles (1987–1991) describes him as "Widely respected, well-connected, principled Rightwing, monetarist City gent; a hard-headed long term thinker; a devout believer in sanctity of tight money" and as saying "I was not only one of the first in this house to be a monetarist...I confidently expect to be about the last." Ahead of the high inflation of the mid-1970s, he attacked (with some prescience) the Bank of England in 1970 for insufficient monetary restraint and (while Chairman of the Finance Committee) both publicly opposed Chancellor Anthony Barber's over-expansion of monetary supply in April 1971 and attacked the Heath Government's "absurd" proposals for a statutory prices and incomes policy.
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