Bob Cryer

Bob Cryer
Bob Cryer
Joan Hall
Succeeded by	Gary Waller
Member of the European Parliament; for Sheffield
	In office; 14 June 1984 – 15 June 1989
Preceded by	Richard Caborn
Succeeded by	Roger Barton
Personal details
Born	George Robert Cryer; 3 December 1934; Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died	12 April 1994 (aged 59); Watford, Hertfordshire, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Ann Place (m. 1963)
Children	John Cryer
Education	University of Hull

George Robert Cryer (3 December 1934 – 12 April 1994) was an English

Bradford South

from 1987 until his death in 1994.

He was one of the founders of the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.

Early life

Born in Bradford, Cryer was educated at Salt High School, Shipley, and the University of Hull. He worked as a teacher and lecturer.^[1]

After

KWVR Preservation Society, which bought the line and reopened it. As the society's first chairman, he helped to facilitate the shooting of the film The Railway Children

on the line in the summer of 1970 and had a small part in it, as a guard.

Political career

Cryer first stood for Parliament at Darwen in 1964, but was defeated by the incumbent Conservative MP, Charles Fletcher-Cooke.

He was elected the Labour

Bradford South from 1987 until his death in a road traffic accident on 12 April 1994 when he was 59. He was the MEP for Sheffield

from 1984 until 1989.

At the start of the Queen's Speech debate on 21 November 1989 – the first time the House of Commons was televised – Cryer raised a point of order on the subject of access to the House, thereby denying the Conservative MP

Speech from the Throne, the accolade of being the first MP (other than the Speaker, Bernard Weatherill

) to speak in the Commons on television.

Death

Cryer died in a car accident on 12 April 1994 when the Rover he was driving to London overturned on the M1 motorway near Junction 5 at Watford. His wife Ann survived the crash.^[2]

Family

His wife

Leyton and Wanstead.^[3]

Filmography

The Railway Children (1970) - Train Guard (uncredited)

References

^ Who's Who, 1987
^ Macintyre, Donald (13 April 1994). "Bob Cryer, champion of Labour Left, dies in car crash". The Independent. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
^ "MP For The Keighley Constituency Ann Cryer". Ilkley.org - Wharfedale's Community on the Web. Wharfedale Online Trust. Archived from the original on 27 December 2008. Retrieved 28 June 2009.

External links

Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
Obituary in The Independent
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Bob Cryer

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Joan Hall	Member of Parliament for Keighley February 1974–1983	Succeeded by Gary Waller
Preceded by Thomas Torney	Bradford South 1987–1994	Succeeded by Gerry Sutcliffe
European Parliament
Preceded by Richard Caborn	Member of the European Parliament for Sheffield 1984–1989	Succeeded by Roger Barton

[1] Who's Who, 1987

[2] Macintyre, Donald (13 April 1994). "Bob Cryer, champion of Labour Left, dies in car crash". The Independent. Retrieved 18 April 2013.

[3] "MP For The Keighley Constituency Ann Cryer". Ilkley.org - Wharfedale's Community on the Web. Wharfedale Online Trust. Archived from the original on 27 December 2008. Retrieved 28 June 2009.

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