Iain Sproat
Politician
1938 – 2011
Who was Iain Sproat?
Iain MacDonald Sproat was a British Conservative Member of Parliament. He was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford. He worked as a publisher and journalist.
At the 1970 general election, he stood in the marginal Scottish constituency of Aberdeen South, and ousted the sitting Labour MP, Donald Dewar. He was re-elected there at three further elections, until the 1983 general election when he moved to contest Roxburgh and Berwickshire believing that this was a 'safer' seat. However, Aberdeen South was held by the Conservatives, while Roxburgh and Berwickshire fell to the Liberal candidate Archy Kirkwood.
Sproat returned to Parliament nine years later, moving to England and succeeding Sir Julian Ridsdale as MP for Harwich in the 1992 general election. He served as Minister for Sport in John Major's government from 1993 to 1997, but at the 1997 general election he was defeated by the Labour candidate Ivan Henderson. Sproat stood again in Harwich at the 2001 election, but Henderson was returned with an increased majority.
Sproat did not contest the 2005 general election, when Douglas Carswell regained the seat for the Conservatives.
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- Born
- Nov 8, 1938
United Kingdom - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Winchester College
- Died
- Sep 29, 2011
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on July 23, 2013
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