John Gilbert, Baron Gilbert
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Minister of State for Defence Procurement | |||||||
In office 1 May 1997 – 17 May 1999 | |||||||
Prime Minister | Tony Blair | ||||||
Preceded by | James Arbuthnot | ||||||
Succeeded by | The Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | ||||||
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Member of Parliament for Dudley East Dudley (1970–1974) | |||||||
In office 18 June 1970 – 8 April 1997 | |||||||
Preceded by | Donald Williams | ||||||
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished | ||||||
Personal details | |||||||
Born | 5 April 1927 | ||||||
Died | 2 June 2013 | (aged 86)||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||
Alma mater | St John's College, Oxford New York University | ||||||
John William Gilbert, Baron Gilbert,
Early life
Gilbert's father was a civil servant. Baron Gilbert was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, St John's College, Oxford, where he studied philosophy, politics and economics, and New York University, where he gained a PhD in international economics. He then worked as a chartered accountant in Canada.[2]
Parliamentary career
He contested the Parliamentary seat of Ludlow in 1966 and a by-election in Dudley in 1968 before being elected for Dudley in 1970 and (after boundary changes) Dudley East in 1974, which he represented until 1997, when it became part of the new Dudley North constituency (which was held by a new Labour MP) and Gilbert retired from the House of Commons.
In the Labour governments of
House of Lords
After his retirement from the
Personal life
Gilbert was married twice, firstly in 1950, to Hillary, daughter of
Gilbert later married Jean Ross-Skinner in 1963.
He died in 2013 at the age of 86.[9]
References
- ^ Andrew Roth (5 April 1927). "Lord Gilbert obituary | Politics". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
- ^ Debrett's People of Today. Retrieved 3 June 2013
- ISBN 0-7230-0497-8.
- ^ a b Parliament UK Biographies. Retrieved 3 June 2013
- ^ "No. 54777". The London Gazette. 28 May 1997. p. 6247.
- ^ Ned Simons "Lord Gilbert Suggests Dropping A Neutron Bomb On Pakistan-Afghanistan Border", The Huffington Post, 26 November 2012
- ^ Hansard (Lords), 22 November 2012, col. 2000 ff
- ^ "Lords Hansard text for 24 October 2012 GC68". Hansard. UK Parliament. 24 October 2012.
- ^ Obituary: Lord Gilbert, telegraph.co.uk, 3 June 2013