Michael Keith Beale Colvin was a British Conservative Party politician.
17 Facts About Michael Colvin
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Michael Colvin was first elected as the Member of Parliament for Bristol North West in 1979.
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Michael Colvin was born in London to Captain Ivan Beale Colvin and Joy Arbuthnot.
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Michael Colvin had a brother, Alistair Colvin, four years his junior.
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Michael Colvin was privately educated, firstly at West Downs School in Winchester, and then at Eton College.
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Michael Colvin then attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.
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Michael Colvin had left Hampshire local government by the mid-1970s.
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Michael Colvin won his first parliamentary seat in 1979 in the Bristol North West constituency.
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Michael Colvin was considered to be one of the "wets", and thus under Margaret Thatcher likely to remain a backbencher.
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Michael Colvin rejected gun-control; he was a leading figure, following the Hungerford and Dunblane massacres in the "gun lobby".
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Michael Colvin became the chairman of the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Committee.
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Michael Colvin supported the South-African-backed anti-SWAPO white forces in Africa and endorsed the Namibia regime in 1981.
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Michael Colvin defended the whites of southern Africa, accepting invitations to visit South Africa, then under apartheid, and Bophuthatswana, a Bantustan set up for blacks by the South African government.
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In 1991, Michael Colvin became a consultant to SNI, in succession to Neil Hamilton.
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Michael Colvin was a friend to lobbyists such as Ian Greer, more directly implicated in the cash for questions scandal, which led to Hamilton's disgrace.
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Later, Michael Colvin became a director of the Laud Ludgate lobbying organisation.
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Michael Colvin married Nichola Cayzer, the daughter of Nicholas Cayzer, Baron Cayzer.