Paul Howell (MEP)
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Paul Frederick Howell (17 January 1951 – 20 September 2008) was a British politician who served as a Conservative Party
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(MEP) for
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from 1979 to 1994.


Biography

Born in
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, the son of Sir Ralph Howell MP, he was educated at
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, Holt and
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. After
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, Howell devoted much of his early career to the Conservative Party, first in its
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(1973–1975), and later as an MEP. Generally on the liberal wing of the Party, he was a member of the
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. After losing his Norfolk constituency in the 1994 European election, he went into business as chairman of Riceman Insurance Investments plc. Always a pro-European, the rise of the Euro-sceptics in the Conservative Party led him to join the Liberal Democrats. Howell died with at least five other people when a
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aircraft he was in crashed on a beach just short of Beira, the second largest city in Mozambique. He had been looking at agricultural business interests in South Africa and Mozambique.


Career summary

*
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, 1973–75 * MEP (
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) for
Norfolk Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...
, 1979–94 *Member of Agricultural, Foreign Affairs and Fisheries Committees of the
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, 1979–1994 *Spokesman for the
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on youth culture, education, information and sport, 1984–86; on agriculture, 1989–92; on fisheries, 1989–94 *Member and EDG spokesman, Regl Committee, 1992–94 *Member of European Parliamentary delegations: to Central America, 1987–94; to Soviet Union, 1989–91; to
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, 1991–94; to Russia, Ukraine,
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, Armenia and Azerbaijan, 1993–94 *Vice-chairman, European Parliament-
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Delegation, 1984 *Chairman, Riceman Insurance Investments plc, 1995–99 *Member of Council and Trustee of the
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, 1992–95 *Trustee, Nuffield Russia Trust, since 1991


References

1951 births 2008 deaths Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Mozambique Conservative Party (UK) MEPs Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford People educated at Gresham's School MEPs for England 1979–1984 MEPs for England 1984–1989 MEPs for England 1989–1994 Liberal Democrats (UK) politicians Politicians of the Pro-Euro Conservative Party Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 2008 {{UK-MEP-stub