Jeremy William Bray was a British Labour politician and a Member of Parliament for 31 years.
11 Facts About Jeremy Bray
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Jeremy Bray spent his formative years in Foshan, until he and his family were evacuated by gunboat prior to the arrival of the Japanese army in 1941.
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Jeremy Bray spent some time working as a research officer at the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge, collaborating with the future Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Richard Stone and Terry Barker on the Cambridge Growth Project.
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Jeremy Bray unsuccessfully contested Thirsk and Malton for Labour in 1959.
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Jeremy Bray was first elected as MP for Middlesbrough West in a 1962 by-election.
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Jeremy Bray was the Opposition Spokesman on Science and Technology from 1983 to 1992.
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Jeremy Bray married his wife Elizabeth in 1953 and had four daughters.
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Jeremy Bray's elder brother, Denis Bray, was a senior civil servant in colonial-era Hong Kong.
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Jeremy Bray underwent major heart surgery in 1991, and afterwards was in increasingly poor health.
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Jeremy Bray died of heart failure at his home in Linton, Cambridgeshire, on 31 May 2002.
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Jeremy Bray's autobiography, Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, was published posthumously by his wife in 2004.