Richard Page
| Richard Page | |
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| Member of Parliament for South West Hertfordshire |
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In office 14 December 1979 – 11 April 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Geoffrey Dodsworth |
| Succeeded by | David Gauke |
| Member of Parliament for Workington |
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In office 4 November 1976 – 3 May 1979 |
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| Preceded by | Fred Peart |
| Succeeded by | Dale Campbell-Savours |
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| Born |
22 February 1941 Tredegar, Wales |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Madeleine Ann Brown |
| Alma mater | University of Bedfordshire |
Richard Lewis Page (born 22 February 1941 in Tredegar) is a former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and from December 1979 to 2005.
He is the son of Victor Charles Page. He went to the independent Hurstpierpoint College in West Sussex and Luton Technical College, gaining an HNC in Mechanical Engineering in 1962. He was an apprentice at Vauxhall Motors in Luton from 1959 to 1963, then worked for Page Holdings, becoming the Chairman from 1985 to 1995 and 1997 onwards.
From 1968 to 1971, he was a district councillor in Banstead, Surrey. Governor of the Royal Masonic School 1984-95, 99-2013---Hon.Treasurer The Leukaemia Research Fund 1991-95 Chairman Keep Southwater Green 2015--
Page won the seat of South West Hertfordshire in a by-election in 1979, having previously been MP for Workington from the by-election caused by the elevation of Fred Peart to the House of Lords in 1976 until losing the seat in the 1979 general election. He is therefore distinguished as one of a handful of MPs who have been successful in two by-elections. He had contested the Workington seat in the February and October 1974 elections.
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