Tony McWalter | |
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Member of Parliament for Hemel Hempstead |
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In office 1 May 1997 – 5 May 2005 |
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Preceded by | Constituency Created |
Succeeded by | Mike Penning |
Personal details | |
Born |
Worksop |
20 March 1945
Nationality | British |
Political party | Labour Co-operative |
Spouse(s) | Karen Omer |
Alma mater | Aberystwyth University, McMaster University, University College, Oxford |
Tony McWalter (born 20 March 1945 in Worksop) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Labour Party and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Hemel Hempstead between 1997 and 2005.
He went to the independent catholic St Benedict's School in Ealing. At the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, he gained a BSc in Pure Maths in 1967, and a BSc in Philosophy in 1968. At McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, he gained an MA in Philosophy in 1968. At University College, Oxford, he gained a BPhil in Philosophy in 1971 and he was offered the degree of MLitt in 1983.
From 1963–4, he was a teacher at the catholic Cardinal Wiseman secondary school in Greenford, west London. From 1964–7, he was periodically a lorry driver for EH Paterson Ltd. From 1968–9, he was a teaching fellow at McMaster University.
He is a former philosophy lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield, beginning when it was known as Hatfield Polytechnic in 1974. He also lectured at Thames Polytechnic (now called the University of Greenwich) from 1972–4. In the late 1980s he was Director of Computing at the university's education campus at Wall Hall.