James Esmond Bulmer (born 19 May 1935) is a retired British
Conservative Party politician. He is the son of Edward Charles Bulmer (b. 1907) and his wife Margaret Leigh (Roberts) Bulmer (b. 1908). His father, a Royal Air Force flight lieutenant, was killed in 1941 whilst on active service.
Bulmer was educated at
Rugby School
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Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independ ...
and
King's College, Cambridge
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. He was commissioned in the
Scots Guards
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during his
national service
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. He then worked for the family firm,
H. P. Bulmer Holdings Ltd. He was
Member of Parliament for
Kidderminster
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from
February 1974 until the
1983 general election, and for
Wyre Forest from 1983 until he stood down at the
1987 general election.
References
*''Times Guide to the House of Commons'', 1983
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*''Cider and More Besides Esmond Bulmer The Memoir Club'', 2010
External links
*
1935 births
Living people
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1974
UK MPs 1974–1979
UK MPs 1979–1983
UK MPs 1983–1987
People educated at Rugby School
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Scots Guards officers
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