Richard Alan
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The Right Honourable The Lord Allan of Hallam |
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| Lord Temporal | |
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Assumed office 22 July 2010 |
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Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam |
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In office 2 May 1997 – 11 April 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Irvine Patnick |
| Succeeded by | Nick Clegg |
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11 February 1966 Sheffield |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats |
| Spouse(s) | Louise Netley |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Cambridge, University of the West of England |
Richard Beecroft Allan, Baron Allan of Hallam (born 11 February 1966) is a British politician and life peer. He was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam from the general election of Thursday 1 May 1997 until the dissolution of Parliament on 11 April 2005.
He was made a life peer in the 2010 Dissolution Honours.
Allan was born in Sheffield. He went to the independent Oundle School in north-east Northamptonshire. He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and gained a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology in 1988. From Bristol Polytechnic, he gained an MSc in Information Technology in 1990. He was a field archaeologist in Britain, France and the Netherlands in 1984-5, and in Ecuador in 1988-9. He was a computer manager at Avon FHSA in 1991-7.
In 1997, he unseated Irvine Patnick of the Conservative Party achieving a majority of 8,221 with a swing of 15.3%. He was only the second non-Conservative to win Sheffield Hallam, and the first since 1918. In 2001, he was re-elected with an increased majority of 9,347. During his tenure, Allan held various committee seats, including the Chair of the House of Commons Information Select Committee and a seat on the House of Commons Liaison Select Committee. Richard Allan was the founding chairman of the Parthenon 2004 campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles.
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