Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris
| The Lord Temple-Morris | |
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| Member of Parliament for Leominster |
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In office 28 February 1974 – 7 June 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Clive Bossom |
| Succeeded by | Bill Wiggin |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
12 February 1938 Cardiff |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party |
Conservative until 1998 Labour since 1998 |
| Spouse(s) | Taheré Khozeimé-Alam |
| Alma mater | St Catharine's College, Cambridge |
Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris (born 12 February 1938) is a British politician. He was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Leominster in 1974. He now sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer.
Born in Cardiff, Temple-Morris attended Llandaff Cathedral School and Hillstone School (Malvern College's preparatory school) in Malvern, then Malvern College. He went to St Catharine's College, Cambridge gaining a BA in Law in 1958. He became a barrister, like his father, from 1962 at the Inner Temple, practising until 1989. His family home was in Cardiff, as his father Sir Owen Temple-Morris was MP for Cardiff East.
Temple-Morris was selected as the Conservative candidate for Newport (Monmouthshire) in 1964 and 1966 and Norwood in 1970. In February 1974, he was elected for Leominster, having been selected for the seat in March 1973. That same year, he was appointed vice-chairman, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (UK Branch). In 1979, he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport, Norman Fowler, Executive Member, Inter-Parliamentary Union (British Group) and Founding Co-Chairman, British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body. He was a member of the Select Committees on Agriculture (1982–83) and on Foreign Affairs (1987–90). He stayed an MP until 2001, although he defected from Conservative to Labour on 20 June 1998.
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