Father Of The House

EDM number 1109 in 1995-96, proposed by Patrick Cormack on 08/07/1996.

That this House salutes the Right honourable Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup, Father of the House, on the occasion of his 80th birthday; pays tribute to his long and distinguished Parliamentary service; and wishes him many more happy returns of the day.

This motion has been signed by a total of 290 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Patrick Cormack	08/07/1996	South Staffordshire		Proposed
Marcus Fox	08/07/1996	Shipley		Signed
Don Foster	08/07/1996	Bath		Signed
Nigel Forman	08/07/1996	Carshalton & Wallington		Signed
Dudley Fishburn	08/07/1996	Kensington		Signed
Frank Field	08/07/1996	Birkenhead		Signed
Peggy Fenner	08/07/1996	Medway		Signed
Andrew Faulds	08/07/1996	Warley East		Signed
Michael Fabricant	08/07/1996	Staffordshire Mid		Signed
David Faber	08/07/1996	Westbury		Signed
Margaret Ewing	08/07/1996	Moray		Signed
Nigel Evans	08/07/1996	Ribble Valley		Signed
Bill Etherington	08/07/1996	Sunderland North		Signed
Peter Emery	08/07/1996	Honiton		Signed
Harold Elletson	08/07/1996	Blackpool North		Signed
John Fraser	08/07/1996	Norwood		Signed
Douglas French	08/07/1996	Gloucester		Signed
Roger Gale	08/07/1996	North Thanet		Signed
David Alton	08/07/1996	Liverpool Mossley Hill		Signed
Rupert Allason	08/07/1996	Torbay		Signed
Michael Alison	08/07/1996	Selby		Signed
Richard Alexander	08/07/1996	Newark		Signed
Jonathan Aitken	08/07/1996	South Thanet		Signed
Irene Adams	08/07/1996	Paisley North		Signed
Harry Greenway	08/07/1996	Ealing North		Signed
Anthony Grant	08/07/1996	Cambridge South West		Signed
John Gorst	08/07/1996	Hendon North		Signed
Charles Goodson-Wickes	08/07/1996	Wimbledon		Signed
John Gilbert	08/07/1996	Dudley East		Signed
Neil Gerrard	08/07/1996	Walthamstow		Signed
Edward Garnier	08/07/1996	Harborough		Signed
Tristan Garel-Jones	08/07/1996	Watford		Signed
Kenneth Eastham	08/07/1996	Manchester, Blackley		Signed
Hugh Dykes	08/07/1996	Harrow East		Signed
Anthony Durant	08/07/1996	Reading West		Signed
Michael Clark	08/07/1996	Rochford		Signed
Winston Churchill	08/07/1996	Davyhulme		Signed
Judith Church	08/07/1996	Dagenham		Signed
Malcolm Chisholm	08/07/1996	Edinburgh Leith		Signed
Sydney Chapman	08/07/1996	Chipping Barnet		Signed
Paul Channon	08/07/1996	Southend West		Signed
Matthew Carrington	08/07/1996	Fulham		Signed
Kenneth Carlisle	08/07/1996	Lincoln		Signed
Alex Carlile	08/07/1996	Montgomery		Signed
Menzies Campbell	08/07/1996	Fife North East		Signed
Anne Campbell	08/07/1996	Cambridge		Signed
Richard Caborn	08/07/1996	Sheffield Central		Signed
John Butterfill	08/07/1996	Bournemouth West		Signed
Nicholas Budgen	08/07/1996	Wolverhampton South West		Signed
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown	08/07/1996	Cirencester and Tewkesbury		Signed
Michael Colvin	08/07/1996	Romsey and Waterside		Signed
Bob Dunn	08/07/1996	Dartford		Signed
Alan Duncan	08/07/1996	Rutland & Melton		Signed
Brian H Donohoe	08/07/1996	Cunninghame South		Signed
Donald Dixon	08/07/1996	Jarrow		Signed
Quentin Davies	08/07/1996	Stamford and Spalding		Signed
Chris Davies	08/07/1996	Littleborough and Saddleworth		Signed
Edwina Currie	08/07/1996	South Derbyshire		Signed
Julian Critchley	08/07/1996	Aldershot		Signed
James Couchman	08/07/1996	Gillingham		Signed
Jean Corston	08/07/1996	Bristol East		Signed
Robin Corbett	08/07/1996	Birmingham, Erdington		Signed
John Cope	08/07/1996	Northavon		Signed
Frank Cook	08/07/1996	Stockton North		Signed
David Congdon	08/07/1996	Croydon North East		Signed
Ian Bruce	08/07/1996	South Dorset		Signed
David Amess	08/07/1996	Basildon		Signed
Tim Yeo	08/07/1996	South Suffolk		Signed
George Walden	08/07/1996	Buckingham		Signed
Peter Viggers	08/07/1996	Gosport		Signed
Gerard Vaughan	08/07/1996	Reading East		Signed
Paul Tyler	08/07/1996	North Cornwall		Signed
Ian Twinn	08/07/1996	Edmonton		Signed
Dennis Turner	08/07/1996	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Neville Trotter	08/07/1996	Tynemouth		Signed
David Tredinnick	08/07/1996	Bosworth		Signed
Richard Tracey	08/07/1996	Surbiton		Signed
Don Touhig	08/07/1996	Islwyn		Signed
Paddy Tipping	08/07/1996	Sherwood		Signed
Stephen Timms	08/07/1996	Newham North East		Signed
Malcolm Thornton	08/07/1996	Crosby		Signed
Patrick Thompson	08/07/1996	Norwich North		Signed
Bill Walker	08/07/1996	North Tayside		Signed
Jim Wallace	08/07/1996	Orkney & Shetland		Signed
Tony Worthington	08/07/1996	Clydebank & Milngavie		Signed
Nicholas Winterton	08/07/1996	Macclesfield		Signed
David Wilshire	08/07/1996	Spelthorne		Signed
Alan Wynne Williams	08/07/1996	Carmarthen		Signed
John Wilkinson	08/07/1996	Ruislip - Northwood		Signed
Jerry Wiggin	08/07/1996	Weston-Super-Mare		Signed
Malcolm Wicks	08/07/1996	Croydon North West		Signed
Ray Whitney	08/07/1996	Wycombe		Signed
Nigel Waterson	08/07/1996	Eastbourne		Signed
Charles Wardle	08/07/1996	Bexhill & Battle		Signed
Gareth Wardell	08/07/1996	Gower		Signed
John Ward	08/07/1996	Poole		Signed
Joan Walley	08/07/1996	Stoke-on-Trent North		Signed
Gary Waller	08/07/1996	Keighley		Signed
Jack Thompson	08/07/1996	Wansbeck		Signed
Roy Thomason	08/07/1996	Bromsgrove		Signed
Peter Temple-Morris	08/07/1996	Leominster		Signed
Matthew Banks	08/07/1996	Southport		Signed
Nicholas Baker	08/07/1996	North Dorset		Signed
Kenneth Baker	08/07/1996	Mole Valley		Signed
David Atkinson	08/07/1996	Bournemouth East		Signed
Robert Atkins	08/07/1996	South Ribble		Signed
Joe Ashton	08/07/1996	Bassetlaw		Signed
David Ashby	08/07/1996	North West Leicestershire		Signed
Tom Arnold	08/07/1996	Hazel Grove		Signed
Donald Anderson	08/07/1996	Swansea East		Signed
John Hannam	08/07/1996	Exeter		Signed
Keith Hampson	08/07/1996	Leeds North West		Signed
John Gunnell	08/07/1996	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Bruce Grocott	08/07/1996	Wrekin, The		Signed
Win Griffiths	08/07/1996	Bridgend		Signed
Robert Banks	08/07/1996	Harrogate		Signed
Spencer Batiste	08/07/1996	Elmet		Signed
Teddy Taylor	08/07/1996	Southend East		Signed
John D Taylor	08/07/1996	Strangford		Signed
Peter Tapsell	08/07/1996	Linsey East		Signed
David Sumberg	08/07/1996	Bury South		Signed
Michael Stephen	08/07/1996	Shoreham		Signed
Anthony Steen	08/07/1996	South Hams		Signed
David Steel	08/07/1996	Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale		Signed
Andrew Bowden	08/07/1996	Brighton, Kemptown		Signed
Peter Bottomley	08/07/1996	Eltham		Signed
Hartley Booth	08/07/1996	Finchley		Signed
Tony Benn	08/07/1996	Chesterfield		Signed
Henry Bellingham	08/07/1996	North West Norfolk		Signed
Stuart Bell	08/07/1996	Middlesbrough		Signed
Hugh Bayley	08/07/1996	York, City of		Signed
Peter Griffiths	08/07/1996	Portsmouth North		Signed
Michael Brown	08/07/1996	Brigg and Cleethorpes		Signed
Barry Jones	08/07/1996	Alyn & Deeside		Signed
Norman Hogg	08/07/1996	Cumbernauld & Kilsyth		Signed
Keith Hill	08/07/1996	Streatham		Signed
James Hill	08/07/1996	Southampton, Test		Signed
Terence Higgins	08/07/1996	Worthing		Signed
Robert Hicks	08/07/1996	South East Cornwall		Signed
Charles Hendry	08/07/1996	High Peak		Signed
Alan Haselhurst	08/07/1996	Saffron Walden		Signed
John Stanley	08/07/1996	Tonbridge & Malling		Signed
Rachel Squire	08/07/1996	Dunfermline West		Signed
Michael Spicer	08/07/1996	Worcestershire South		Signed
James Spicer	08/07/1996	West Dorset		Signed
John Spellar	08/07/1996	Warley West		Signed
Keith Speed	08/07/1996	Ashford		Signed
Peter Snape	08/07/1996	West Bromwich East		Signed
Peter Hordern	08/07/1996	Horsham		Signed
Alan Howarth	08/07/1996	Stratford-on-Avon		Signed
Russell Johnston	08/07/1996	Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber		Signed
Geoffrey Johnson Smith	08/07/1996	Wealden		Signed
Greville Janner	08/07/1996	Leicester West		Signed
Robert Jackson	08/07/1996	Wantage		Signed
Helen Jackson	08/07/1996	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Douglas Hurd	08/07/1996	Witney		Signed
Andrew Hunter	08/07/1996	Basingstoke		Signed
John Hunt	08/07/1996	Ravensbourne		Signed
David Hunt	08/07/1996	Wirral West		Signed
John Hume	08/07/1996	Foyle		Signed
Simon Hughes	08/07/1996	Southwark and Bermondsey		Signed
Robert Hughes	08/07/1996	Harrow West		Signed
Ralph Howell	08/07/1996	North Norfolk		Signed
David Howell	08/07/1996	Guildford		Signed
Martin Smyth	08/07/1996	Belfast South		Signed
Tim Smith	08/07/1996	Beaconsfield		Signed
Dudley Smith	08/07/1996	Warwick & Leamington		Signed
Mark Robinson	08/07/1996	Somerton and Frome		Signed
Geoffrey Robinson	08/07/1996	Coventry North West		Signed
Wyn Roberts	08/07/1996	Conwy		Signed
Andrew Robathan	08/07/1996	Blaby		Signed
Graham Riddick	08/07/1996	Colne Valley		Signed
Timothy Renton	08/07/1996	Mid Sussex		Signed
David Rendel	08/07/1996	Newbury		Signed
Tim Rathbone	08/07/1996	Lewes		Signed
Giles Radice	08/07/1996	North Durham		Signed
Joyce Quin	08/07/1996	Gateshead East		Signed
William Powell	08/07/1996	Corby		Signed
Raymond Powell	08/07/1996	Ogmore		Signed
Elizabeth Peacock	08/07/1996	Batley & Spen		Signed
Geoffrey Pattie	08/07/1996	Chertsey and Walton		Signed
Allan Rogers	08/07/1996	Rhondda		Signed
Andrew Rowe	08/07/1996	Kent Mid		Signed
Andrew Smith	08/07/1996	Oxford East		Signed
Trevor Skeet	08/07/1996	Bedfordshire North		Signed
Roger Sims	08/07/1996	Chislehurst		Signed
Peter Shore	08/07/1996	Bethnal Green and Stepney		Signed
Michael Shersby	08/07/1996	Uxbridge		Signed
Richard Shepherd	08/07/1996	Aldridge-Brownhills		Signed
Colin Shepherd	08/07/1996	Hereford		Signed
Robert Sheldon	08/07/1996	Ashton-under-Lyne		Signed
Giles Shaw	08/07/1996	Pudsey		Signed
Brian Sedgemore	08/07/1996	Hackney South & Shoreditch		Signed
Nicholas Scott	08/07/1996	Chelsea		Signed
Tim Sainsbury	08/07/1996	Hove		Signed
Richard Ryder	08/07/1996	Mid Norfolk		Signed
Joan Ruddock	08/07/1996	Lewisham, Deptford		Signed
Peter Pike	08/07/1996	Burnley		Signed
Nigel Jones	08/07/1996	Cheltenham		Signed
Peter Brooke	08/07/1996	City of London and Westminster South		Signed
Hector Monro	08/07/1996	Dumfries		Signed
James Molyneaux	08/07/1996	Lagan Valley		Signed
David Mitchell	08/07/1996	North West Hampshire		Signed
Austin Mitchell	08/07/1996	Great Grimsby		Signed
Iain Mills	08/07/1996	Meriden		Signed
Andrew Miller	08/07/1996	Ellesmere Port & Neston		Signed
Ray Michie	08/07/1996	Argyll & Bute		Signed
David Mellor	08/07/1996	Putney		Signed
Henry McLeish	08/07/1996	Central Fife		Signed
John McFall	08/07/1996	Dumbarton		Signed
Robert McCartney	08/07/1996	North Down		Signed
Thomas McAvoy	08/07/1996	Glasgow, Rutherglen		Signed
Michael Mates	08/07/1996	East Hampshire		Signed
Eric Martlew	08/07/1996	Carlisle		Signed
Lewis Moonie	08/07/1996	Kirkcaldy		Signed
Alf Morris	08/07/1996	Manchester Wythenshawe		Signed
Graham Bright	08/07/1996	Luton South		Signed
Julian Brazier	08/07/1996	Canterbury		Signed
Jeremy Bray	08/07/1996	Motherwell South		Signed
Rhodes Boyson	08/07/1996	Brent North		Signed
Stan Orme	08/07/1996	Salford East		Signed
Cranley Onslow	08/07/1996	Woking		Signed
Bill Olner	08/07/1996	Nuneaton		Signed
Edward O'Hara	08/07/1996	Knowsley South		Signed
Emma Nicholson	08/07/1996	Torridge & West Devon		Signed
David Nicholson	08/07/1996	Taunton		Signed
Michael Neubert	08/07/1996	Romford		Signed
Richard Needham	08/07/1996	North Wiltshire		Signed
Paul Murphy	08/07/1996	Torfaen		Signed
George Mudie	08/07/1996	Leeds East		Signed
Michael Marshall	08/07/1996	Arundel		Signed
Tony Marlow	08/07/1996	Northampton North		Signed
Michael Jopling	08/07/1996	Westmorland & Lonsdale		Signed
James Lester	08/07/1996	Broxtowe		Signed
Mark Lennox-Boyd	08/07/1996	Morecambe & Lunesdale		Signed
Edward Leigh	08/07/1996	Gainsborough and Horncastle		Signed
Ivan Lawrence	08/07/1996	Burton		Signed
Norman Lamont	08/07/1996	Kingston upon Thames		Signed
David Knox	08/07/1996	Staffordshire Moorlands		Signed
Archy Kirkwood	08/07/1996	Roxburgh & Berwickshire		Signed
Tom King	08/07/1996	Bridgwater		Signed
Piara S Khabra	08/07/1996	Ealing, Southall		Signed
Robert Key	08/07/1996	Salisbury		Signed
Charles Kennedy	08/07/1996	Ross and Cromarty and Skye		Signed
Elaine Kellett	08/07/1996	Lancaster		Signed
Alan Keen	08/07/1996	Feltham & Heston		Signed
Gerald Kaufman	08/07/1996	Manchester, Gorton		Signed
Helen Liddell	08/07/1996	Monklands East		Signed
David Lidington	08/07/1996	Aylesbury		Signed
Paul Marland	08/07/1996	Gloucestershire West		Signed
John Marek	08/07/1996	Wrexham		Signed
Keith Mans	08/07/1996	Wyre		Signed
Peter Mandelson	08/07/1996	Hartlepool		Signed
Seamus Mallon	08/07/1996	Newry & Armagh		Signed
Olga Maitland	08/07/1996	Sutton & Cheam		Signed
David Madel	08/07/1996	South West Bedfordshire		Signed
Diana Maddock	08/07/1996	Christchurch		Signed
Denis MacShane	08/07/1996	Rotherham		Signed
Peter Lloyd	08/07/1996	Fareham		Signed
Michael Lord	08/07/1996	Suffolk Central		Signed
Peter Luff	08/07/1996	Worcester		Signed
Calum MacDonald	08/07/1996	Na h-Eileanan an Iar		Signed
John MacGregor	08/07/1996	South Norfolk		Signed
Robert Maclennan	08/07/1996	Caithness and Sutherland		Signed
Robert Wareing	09/07/1996	Liverpool, West Derby		Signed
Tony Banks	09/07/1996	Newham North West		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	09/07/1996	Leigh		Signed
Keith Bradley	09/07/1996	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Gordon Oakes	09/07/1996	Halton		Signed
Roy Hughes	09/07/1996	Newport East		Signed
Robert Hughes	09/07/1996	Aberdeen North		Signed
David Shaw	09/07/1996	Dover		Signed
Robert Parry	09/07/1996	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Colin Pickthall	09/07/1996	West Lancashire		Signed
Roy Beggs	10/07/1996	East Antrim		Signed
Mike Hall	10/07/1996	Warrington South		Signed
Tom Cox	10/07/1996	Tooting		Signed
John Home Robertson	10/07/1996	East Lothian		Signed
John Heppell	10/07/1996	Nottingham East		Signed
John Evans	11/07/1996	St Helens North		Signed
Nick Harvey	11/07/1996	North Devon		Signed
Roland Boyes	12/07/1996	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Harry Barnes	15/07/1996	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Stephen Day	16/07/1996	Cheadle		Signed
Tommy Graham	18/07/1996	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Martyn Jones	18/07/1996	Clwyd South West		Signed
Eddie McGrady	22/07/1996	South Down		Signed
Eric Illsley	23/07/1996	Barnsley Central		Signed
Anthony Coombs	Unknown			Withdrawn
Peter Ainsworth	Unknown			Withdrawn

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