Keith Speed
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Member of Parliament for Meriden | |
In office 29 March 1968 – 8 February 1974 | |
Preceded by | Christopher Rowland |
Succeeded by | John Tomlinson |
Member of Parliament for Ashford | |
In office 10 October 1974 – 8 April 1997 | |
Preceded by | Bill Deedes |
Succeeded by | Damian Green |
Personal details | |
Born | Herbert Keith Speed 11 March 1934 Evesham, Worcestershire, England |
Died | 12 January 2018 Ashford, Kent, England | (aged 83)
Political party | Conservative |
Sir Herbert Keith Speed
Life
Speed was born on 11 March 1934 in
After unsuccessfully contesting St Helens in 1964, Speed was elected MP for Meriden in Warwickshire in a 1968 by-election and held the seat until 1974. New constituency boundaries were drawn up prior to the February 1974 general election and Speed lost his Meriden seat to Labour's John Tomlinson, who retained the seat in October 1974 defeating Christopher Horne. He was selected to succeed Bill Deedes as Conservative Candidate for the seat of Ashford in Kent in the October 1974 General Election, and was elected as MP with a majority of over 6,000.
On 4 May 1979 he was appointed
In 1982 he wrote a book, Sea Change (see bibliography), which outlined the background to the Falklands conflict and expressed admiration for former Soviet Admiral Sergey Gorshkov.
As of April 2005, Sir Keith Speed was a Deputy
Speed died in hospital on 12 January 2018.[8]
Bibliography
- Speed, Keith (1982). Sea Change: The Battle For The Falklands And The Future Of Britain's Navy. Ashgrove Press ISBN 0-906798-20-5
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4.
- ^ "Sir Keith Speed, former Navy minister – obituary". The Telegraph. 22 January 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2019 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ "Sir Keith Speed, former Navy minister – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 22 January 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- OCLC 16558393– via worldcat.org.
- ^ Speed, Keith (1982) Sea Change: The Battle for the Falklands and the Future of the Royal Navy, Ashgrove Press, jacket cover inset
- ISBN 0-9514305-2-1
- ^ "No. 52952". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1992. p. 2. (United Kingdom)
- ^ "Tributes to 'model of kindness' former MP". Kent Online. 17 January 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2019.