17 Facts About Geoffrey Dickens

Geoffrey Kenneth Dickens was a British Conservative politician.

Geoffrey Dickens was MP for Huddersfield West from 1979 until the seat was abolished in 1983.

Geoffrey Dickens was then elected for Littleborough and Saddleworth and held the seat until his death in 1995.

Geoffrey Dickens was born in London and fostered until he was eight years old.

Geoffrey Dickens was educated at schools at East Lane in Wembley and at Acton Technical College.

Geoffrey Dickens contracted polio when he was 13, for which he had to spend two years in hospital.

In 1972 Geoffrey Dickens was awarded the Royal Humane Society's Testimonial on Vellum after he saved two boys and a man from drowning in the sea off Majorca.

Geoffrey Dickens won Huddersfield West in 1979 but this seat was abolished after boundary reviews.

Geoffrey Dickens was selected as the Conservative candidate for Littleborough and Saddleworth, which he won in 1983.

Geoffrey Dickens once held a press conference announcing an affair without, apparently, warning his wife.

Between 1981 and 1985, Geoffrey Dickens campaigned against a suspected paedophile ring he claimed to have uncovered that was connected to trading child pornography.

In 1981, Geoffrey Dickens named the former British High Commissioner to Canada, Sir Peter Hayman, as a paedophile in the House of Commons, using parliamentary privilege so he could not be sued for slander.

Geoffrey Dickens asked why he had not been jailed after the discovery on a bus of violent pornography.

Geoffrey Dickens had a thirty-minute meeting with the Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, after giving him a dossier containing the child abuse allegations.

On 29 November 1985, Geoffrey Dickens said in a speech to the Commons that paedophiles were "evil and dangerous" and that child pornography generated "vast sums".

Geoffrey Dickens married Norma Boothby in 1956 and the couple had two children.

Geoffrey Dickens died from liver cancer in Hertfordshire on 17 May 1995, at the age of 63.