1. Sir John Valentine Butterfill was a British Conservative politician and businessman who served as Member of Parliament for Bournemouth West from 1983 until he stood down at the 2010 general election.
21 Facts About John Butterfill
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John Butterfill was a director at the Audley Properties Group from 1969 until he became the managing director of the St Paul's Securities Group.
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John Butterfill became a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1974.
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John Butterfill was elected as the chairman of the Guildford Conservative Association from 1976 to 1982.
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John Butterfill was the director of ISLEF Building and Construction Ltd from 1985 to 1991 and the Pavilion Services Group from 1992 to 1994.
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In 1979, John Butterfill contested London South East Inner at the European Parliamentary election but was defeated comfortably by Labour's Richard Balfe.
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John Butterfill was selected to contest the Croydon North West by-election in 1981, which was caused by the death of Conservative MP Robert Taylor.
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John Butterfill was chosen to contest the south-coast seat of Bournemouth West on the retirement of the veteran MP John Eden.
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John Butterfill won the seat at the 1983 general election with a majority of 13,331 and remained the MP until 2010.
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John Butterfill remained a backbencher for the entirety of his parliamentary career.
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John Butterfill was the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Energy, Cecil Parkinson, in 1988, remaining Parkinson's PPS when he became the Secretary of State for Transport in 1989.
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John Butterfill's job ended when Parkinson resigned from the Cabinet at the election of John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher in 1990.
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John Butterfill served on many select committees during his more than 20-year Westminster career.
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John Butterfill was responsible for introducing many acts of Parliament including the Registered Homes Act 1991, the Insolvency Act 1994, and the Policyholders Protection Act 1997.
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John Butterfill introduced the Financial Mutuals Arrangements Bill, which was renamed and became the Building Societies and Mutual Societies Act 2007.
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In May 2009, as part of the Daily Telegraph publication of details, the newspaper revealed that for five years, John Butterfill owned a six-bedroom country house in Woking, Surrey, 80 miles from his constituency.
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John Butterfill was one of the MPs named in a 2010 sting operation.
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John Butterfill was seen on the Dispatches programme saying he had been one of the four people who persuaded David Cameron to stand for leader of the Conservative Party and that it was likely that he would be made a peer and go to the House of Lords.
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John Butterfill has not, therefore, upheld the allegations against Sir John.
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John Butterfill married Pamela Ross-Symons in 1965 in Surrey, and they had a son and three daughters.
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John Butterfill died in Hampshire on 7 November 2021, at the age of 80.