1. The son of a stockbroker, Hendry was educated at Rugby School, Warwickshire and the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Business Studies in 1981.
22 Facts About Charles Hendry
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Charles Hendry was the president of the Edinburgh University Conservative Association in 1979.
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Charles Hendry worked as an account manager with Ogilvy and Mather PR for six years from 1982, and from 1988 he worked for two years as a special adviser for the successive Secretaries of State for Social Security John Moore and Tony Newton.
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Charles Hendry became a senior consultant with Burson-Marsteller Archived 24 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine in 1990, where he remained until his election to parliament.
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Charles Hendry was the vice-chairman of the Scottish Federation of Conservative Students in 1980 and was elected as the vice-chairman of the Battersea Conservative Association for two years in 1981.
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Charles Hendry unsuccessfully contested the Central Scotland seat of Clackmannan at the 1983 general election where he came third, finishing 9,988 votes behind the sitting Labour MP Martin O'Neill.
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Charles Hendry contested the Nottinghamshire seat of Mansfield at the 1987 general election where he was narrowly defeated by Alan Meale, who won by just 56 votes: this was the joint closest constituency vote in the whole election.
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Charles Hendry was elected to the House of Commons at the 1992 general election for the Derbyshire seat of High Peak following the retirement of the Conservative MP Christopher Hawkins.
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Charles Hendry was appointed as the vice chairman of the Conservative Party in 1995 by John Major, in which capacity he remained until he lost his seat, representing part of the Peak District, at the 1997 general election when he was defeated by Labour's Tom Levitt by 8,791 votes.
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Charles Hendry was re-elected to parliament at the 2001 general election for the East Sussex seat of Wealden following the retirement of the Conservative MP Geoffrey Johnson Smith.
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Charles Hendry retained his new seat for his party with a majority of 13,772.
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Charles Hendry served briefly as a member of the culture, media and sport select committee in 2004.
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Charles Hendry served as the vice-chairman of the all-party groups on endometriosis, Internet and management.
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In September 2006, Charles Hendry became a Patron of the Tory Reform Group.
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Charles Hendry was a Shadow Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change from October 2008.
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Charles Hendry became Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change in May 2010 before being replaced by John Hayes in September 2012.
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Charles Hendry had served as Co-Chair from late 2006 but governance changes dissolved the Co-Chair system in favour of a sole Chair.
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In March 2013, Charles Hendry announced he would stand down as MP at the 2015 general election.
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In July 2013, it became known that Charles Hendry had secured a job as adviser to the Atlantic Supergrid Corporation which plans to import power to the UK via an undersea cable from Iceland.
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Charles Hendry had signed an energy pact with Iceland while he was Minister of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
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Charles Hendry was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to UK trade and investment.
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Charles Hendry married Sallie Moores, who had first married into the Moores family of the Littlewoods company, in July 1995 in Westminster and has two sons and two stepchildren.