Sir Roger Denis Moate (12 May 1938 – 15 April 2019) was a

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politician in the

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Biography

Moate was educated at

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and was an insurance broker. He first stood for Parliament for the

Faversham Faversham () is a market town in Kent, England, from Sittingbourne, from London and from Canterbury, next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. It is close to the A2 road (Great ...

constituency at the 1966 general election, losing to Labour's Terence Boston. When the

Redcliffe-Maud Report The Redcliffe-Maud Report (Cmnd.4040) was a 1969 command paper report from the Royal Commission on Local Government in England, under the chairmanship of Lord Redcliffe-Maud. The commission was formed in 1966 to examine the structure of local go ...

was campaigned against by rural district councils, Swale R.D.C. was forced to opt out of the campaign due to the similarity of "R.E. Mote" with its then-prospective candidate R. D. Moate. By coincidence, Moate had moved the motion opposing Redcliffe-Maud at the Conservative Party conference. He was elected Member of Parliament for Faversham at the 1970 general election, and served as MP until 1997. He was a member of the select committee on Agriculture from 1995 to 1997. Moate was a staunch

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who had opposed Britain's entry into the

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in the early 1970s and who kept a 'roll of honour' of the 41 Conservative MPs who had voted against joining the EEC in 1971. He was still hostile to the EEC in the early 1990s, becoming one of the ' Maastricht Rebels' who repeatedly voted against the Government's attempts to ratify the

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. At the 1997 election, the Faversham constituency was split to form Faversham and Mid Kent and

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. Moate contested the latter seat, but lost to the Labour candidate, Derek Wyatt. Meanwhile, the former seat was retained for the Conservatives. Moate was

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ed in 1993 and lived in Newnham, near

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, before moving to Faversham, where he died at home from cancer in April 2019, aged 80. He was married twice and had three children.Telegraph: Sir Roger Moate, robustly Eurosceptic and long-serving Tory MP unwittingly caught up in the ‘War of Jennifer’s Ear’ – obituary
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* 1938 births 2019 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Moate,Roger UK MPs 1970–1974 UK MPs 1974 UK MPs 1974–1979 UK MPs 1979–1983 UK MPs 1983–1987 UK MPs 1987–1992 UK MPs 1992–1997 People educated at Latymer Upper School People from Faversham People from Newnham, Kent British Eurosceptics {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1930s-stub