John Wentworth Pardoe was born on 27 July 1934 and is a British retired businessman and Liberal Party politician.
14 Facts About John Pardoe
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John Pardoe was Chairman of Sight and Sound Education Ltd from 1979 to 1989.
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John Pardoe attended King's College School, Cambridge, and was a chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge.
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John Pardoe then went to Sherborne School, a boarding independent school for boys in the market town of Sherborne in Dorset, followed by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
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John Pardoe was active in the famous Footlights drama club; one critic of their 1955 revue panned future comedian Jonathan Miller, whilst predicting a bold comedic future for Pardoe.
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John Pardoe rapidly became the party's Economic Affairs spokesman in parliament and was respected for the intellect of his views, if not for the often partisan nature of his comments.
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John Pardoe was Treasurer of the Liberal Party from 1968 to 1969.
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In 1976, after the resignation of Jeremy Thorpe, John Pardoe was a candidate for the leadership of the Liberal Party.
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John Pardoe lost to David Steel, who received 12,541 votes to Pardoe's 7,032.
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John Pardoe played the fairy-tale Liberal prime minister in BBC Radio 4's Christmas pantomime, Black Cinderella Two Goes East in 1978, on the basis that Liberal prime ministers exist only in fairy tales.
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From 1967 to 1973, John Pardoe was a consultant to the National Association of Schoolmasters.
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John Pardoe was a director at William Schlackman Ltd from 1968 to 1971, Gerald Metals and a Member of the London Metal Exchange from 1973 to 1983.
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John Pardoe was a presenter of LWT's Look Here television programme from 1979 to 1981.
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In 1958, Pardoe married Joyce R Peerman; the couple have two sons and a daughter.