Jack Heywood Aspinwall (5 February 1933 – 19 May 2015) was a British
Conservative
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politician.
Career
In the
February 1974 and
October 1974 elections, Aspinwall was the
Liberal Party
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candidate for
Kingswood in the rural county of
Avon, coming third in both. He changed his allegiance to the Conservatives in 1975 as "the priority was to defeat socialism"
and was elected as the
Member of Parliament for the seat in
1979
Events
January
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, beating the
Labour incumbent,
Terence Walker, by 303 votes. He served there for one parliament until the
1983 election, when he stood for and was elected for the new constituency of
Wansdyke, which he represented for three further parliaments until his retirement at the
1997 general election.
Personal life
Born in
Bootle
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, Aspinwall had two brothers, Frank and Raymond. He won a scholarship to
Prescot Grammar School, but his mother died when he was 14 years old and he went into care. He joined the
RAF after leaving school. While stationed in
Wiltshire
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in 1954, he met his future wife, Brenda Squires, whom he married in 1954. He and his wife had three children. Jack Aspinwall died of cancer at
Willsbridge
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, near
Bristol
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, England, on 19 May 2015, aged 82.
References
Sources
*''Times Guide to the House of Commons'', Times Newspapers Limited, 1992 edition.
External links
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1933 births
2015 deaths
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Liberal Party (UK) parliamentary candidates
UK MPs 1979–1983
UK MPs 1983–1987
UK MPs 1987–1992
UK MPs 1992–1997
People from Bootle
Politics of Bath and North East Somerset
Deaths from cancer in England
Royal Air Force airmen
People educated at Prescot Grammar School