Julian Critchley
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Sir Julian Critchley | |
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Member of Parliament for Aldershot | |
In office 18 June 1970 – 8 April 1997 | |
Preceded by | Eric Errington |
Succeeded by | Gerald Howarth |
Member of Parliament for Rochester and Chatham | |
In office 8 October 1959 – 25 September 1964 | |
Preceded by | Arthur Bottomley |
Succeeded by | Anne Kerr |
Personal details | |
Born | Julian Michael Gordon Critchley 8 December 1930 London, England |
Died | 9 September 2000 Macdonald Critchley (father) | (aged 69)
Alma mater | Pembroke College, Oxford (BA) |
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Sir Julian Michael Gordon Critchley (8 December 1930 – 9 September 2000) was a British journalist, author and
Early life
Born in
Political career
Critchley served as a
Critchley was considered to be on the left wing of the Conservative Party (one of the "wets" in
Critchley was a long-standing friend of
From the early 1990s Critchley became severely restricted in mobility from complications arising from the
Later life
After his retirement he was expelled from the mainstream Conservative party for backing the Pro-Euro Conservative Party in the 1999 European Parliament election. He died the next year in Hereford from prostate cancer aged 69. He was married twice, and had four children. In later life he settled in Shropshire at Ludlow, and was buried in the parish churchyard at Wistanstow near Craven Arms. Critchley became highly regarded as a witty and acerbic political writer and journalist, increasingly so towards the end of his life. His 1994 volume of memoirs, A Bag of Boiled Sweets, was described by Jeremy Paxman as "the most entertaining set of political memoirs to have been published in years". He also wrote two mystery novels set in Parliament, Hung Parliament and Floating Voter, which feature an MP turned sleuth apparently based on Critchley himself along with a mixture of real and invented MPs, the latter providing the victims and suspects.
Publications
- Westminster Blues: Minor Chords, ISBN 0-241-11387-3
- Heseltine: The Unauthorised Biography, ISBN 0-233-98001-6
- The Palace of Varieties: An Insider's View of Westminster, ISBN 0-719-54729-6
- A Bag of Boiled Sweets. An Autobiography, ISBN 0-571-17496-5
- Collapse of Stout Party: The Decline and Fall of the Tories, ISBN 0-575-06277-0
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISBN 978-0-9568018-0-7.)
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ Oxford men speak at Shipyard, Barrow-in-Furness Mail, c.1953. Archive of Guy Arnold
- ^ "Sir Julian Critchley". The Telegraph. 11 September 2000. Retrieved 28 February 2024.