UK Elections Info

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Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 25 September 1939, London

Died: 21 January 2015

Baron Brittan of Spennithorne - 9 February 2000

Knighted - 1989

Member of Privy Council - 8 January 1981

husband of Diana Clemetson

son of Joseph Brittan

son of Rebecca Lipetz

Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree

Trinity College, Cambridge

Harvard University

Barrister

Minister of State, Home Office	May 1979	5 January 1981
Chief Secretary to the Treasury	5 January 1981	11 June 1983
Secretary of State for the Home Department	11 June 1983	2 September 1985
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry	2 September 1985	24 January 1986
President of the Board of Trade	2 September 1985	24 January 1986

31 March 1966	Kensington North	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,749	36.78
18 June 1970	Kensington North	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,792	39.24
28 February 1974	Cleveland & Whitby	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,090	42.55
10 October 1974	Cleveland & Whitby	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,973	43.22
3 May 1979	Cleveland & Whitby	Conservative & Unionist Party	26,735	51.05
9 June 1983	Richmond	Conservative & Unionist Party	32,373	62.64
11 June 1987	Richmond	Conservative & Unionist Party	34,995	61.23
31 December 1988 Resignation of Leon Brittan on appointment as European Commissioner.