Peter Gerald "Gerry" Malone (born 21 July 1950) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 1987 and again from 1992 to 1997.

Early life

Born in

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, Malone was educated at

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, and attended the

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Early career

Glasgow candidacies

He was the

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candidate at the February 1974 general election for Glasgow Provan, where he was defeated by Labour's Hugh Brown. He made other unsuccessful attempts to be elected to the

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at Glasgow Pollok at the October 1974 general election, Roxburgh, Peebles and Selkirk at the 1979 general election, and the Glasgow Hillhead by-election in 1982 (where he lost the traditionally Conservative seat to

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of the

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MP for Aberdeen South

He was elected as MP for Aberdeen South at the 1983 general election, in a landslide victory for the Conservative Party, but lost the seat to Frank Doran of Labour at the 1987 general election. During this time he served as an assistant Government whip, from 10 February 1986 to 15 June 1987.

Re-entering Parliament

MP for Winchester

He re-entered Parliament in 1992, representing the "safe" Conservative seat of

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. In May 1992 Malone became a

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, joining incumbent Dame

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in the post. He left the post in July 1994 and was succeeded by Rumbold,

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and

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. He was appointed a

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at the

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in 1994, when

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was the secretary of state.

1997 contested seat of Winchester

Malone unexpectedly lost his Winchester seat at the 1997 general election by two votes, to the

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candidate

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. Malone challenged the result in the high court, and it was declared void, causing a by-election. Malone trailed Oaten by 21,566 votes in the resulting by-election.

Commercial chairmanships

Malone was chairman of Regent-GM, a supplier of

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s to the

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(NHS) and a

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's General Mediterranean Holding. The company was wound up in 2004 after being accused of colluding with five other pharmaceuticals companies to overcharge the NHS for drugs. Malone served until September 2014 as a non-executive chairman of Ultrasis, which specialises in computerised

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software. He is currently chairman of a range of US mutual funds and serves on the board of the Washington-based Mutual Funds Directors Forum (MFDF); Malone is a director of two US healthcare companies, Bionik Labs and Medality Medical.

Writer and broadcaster

Malone was Scottish editor of ''

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'' from 1987 to 1990 and a broadcaster on

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and

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from 1987 to 1992. He is currently opera critic of Reaction.life, an online news, commentary and arts publication.

References

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