Hugh Rossi
Minister of State for Northern Ireland | |
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In office 7 May 1979 – 5 January 1981 | |
Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
Preceded by | Don Concannon |
Succeeded by | Adam Butler |
Member of Parliament for Hornsey and Wood Green Hornsey (1966–1983) | |
In office 31 March 1966 – 9 April 1992 | |
Preceded by | Muriel Gammans |
Succeeded by | Barbara Roche |
Personal details | |
Born | Hugh Alexis Louis Rossi 21 June 1927 |
Died | 14 April 2020 | (aged 92)
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative |
Children | 4 daughters, 1 son |
Alma mater | King's College London |
Sir Hugh Alexis Louis Rossi,
His father, Gaudenzio Rossi, came to London in 1919 after serving in the Italian Army in the
Rossi was elected a councillor on Hornsey Borough Council 1956–65, serving as deputy mayor 1964–65, and on the successor London Borough of Haringey from 1964. He was also a Middlesex County Councillor 1961–65. Rossi was Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornsey from 1966 to 1983, and (after boundary changes) for Hornsey and Wood Green, 1983 to 1992.
A junior minister in the governments of
He retired in 1992, after which the Conservative Party lost the Hornsey and Wood Green seat, when his successor as Conservative candidate, Andrew Boff, was defeated by the Labour Party's Barbara Roche.
Rossi was knighted in Thatcher's 1983 Dissolution Honours List.[3]
He died in April 2020 at the age of 92 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.[4]
References
- ^ ‘ROSSI, Sir Hugh (Alexis Louis)’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017
- ^ a b Sir Hugh Rossi obituary, The Times, April 17 2020
- ^ "Page 9699 | Supplement 49424, 21 July 1983 | London Gazette | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- ^ Boniface, Michael (14 April 2020). "Sir Hugh Rossi: Former Hornsey MP and councillor dies aged 92". Hampstead Highgate Express. Archived from the original on 15 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Hugh Rossi