Gerry Malone was the Conservative candidate at the February 1974 general election for Glasgow Provan, where he was defeated by Labour's Hugh Brown.
15 Facts About Gerry Malone
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Gerry Malone made other unsuccessful attempts to be elected to the House of Commons at Glasgow Pollok at the October 1974 general election, Roxburgh, Peebles and Selkirk at the 1979 general election, and the Glasgow Hillhead by-election in 1982.
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Gerry Malone was elected as MP for Aberdeen South at the 1983 general election, in a landslide victory for the Conservative Party, but lost the seat to Frank Doran of Labour at the 1987 general election.
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Gerry Malone re-entered Parliament in 1992, representing the "safe" Conservative seat of Winchester.
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In May 1992 Gerry Malone became a deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, joining incumbent Dame Angela Rumbold in the post.
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Gerry Malone left the post in July 1994 and was succeeded by Rumbold, Michael Dobbs and John Maples.
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Gerry Malone was appointed a Minister of State at the Department of Health in 1994, when Virginia Bottomley was the secretary of state.
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Gerry Malone unexpectedly lost his Winchester seat at the 1997 general election by two votes, to the Liberal Democrat candidate Mark Oaten.
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Gerry Malone challenged the result in the high court, and it was declared void, causing a by-election.
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Gerry Malone trailed Oaten by 21,566 votes in the resulting by-election.
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Gerry Malone was chairman of Regent-GM, a supplier of generic drugs to the National Health Service and a subsidiary of Nadhmi Auchi's General Mediterranean Holding.
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Gerry Malone was wound up in 2004 after being accused of colluding with five other pharmaceuticals companies to overcharge the NHS for drugs.
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Gerry Malone served until September 2014 as a non-executive chairman of Ultrasis, which specialises in computerised cognitive behavioural therapy software.
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Gerry Malone is currently chairman of a range of US mutual funds and serves on the board of the Washington-based Mutual Funds Directors Forum ; Malone is a director of two US healthcare companies, Bionik Labs and Medality Medical.
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Gerry Malone was Scottish editor of The Sunday Times from 1987 to 1990 and a broadcaster on BBC Radio Scotland and Radio Clyde from 1987 to 1992.