Michael John Mates was born on 9 June 1934 and is a Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for the constituency of East Hampshire from 1974 to 2010.
22 Facts About Michael Mates
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Michael Mates was a minister at the Northern Ireland Office from 1992 to 1993, resigning after his support for failed businessman Asil Nadir damaged his reputation.
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Michael Mates was born on 9 June 1934 in Brentford, Middlesex, England.
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Michael Mates was educated at Salisbury Cathedral School, Blundell's School and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar.
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On 18 June 1955, Michael Mates was commissioned into the Royal Ulster Rifles, British Army, as a second lieutenant.
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On 10 March 1961, Michael Mates transferred from the Royal Ulster Rifles to 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards.
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Michael Mates was promoted to captain on 9 June 1961, and to major on 31 December 1967.
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Michael Mates was a Member of Parliament for 35 years.
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Michael Mates was first elected in the October 1974 general election for Petersfield in Hampshire, following the retirement of Joan Quennell.
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From 1992 to 1993, Michael Mates was Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office.
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Michael Mates resigned after a scandal involving his links to fugitive businessman Asil Nadir.
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Michael Mates served as the chairman of the Defence and Northern Ireland select committees and chaired the All-Party Anglo-Irish Parliamentary Group.
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Michael Mates was appointed a member of the Privy Council in February 2004.
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Michael Mates is a candidate with a wealth of experience in high public office and the party believes he will make an excellent first police commissioner.
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The former lawyer wrote to the county's Chief Constable alleging that Michael Mates breached the 2006 Fraud Act by giving his address as a house where he rents rooms in Winchester.
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Michael Mates denied the allegations, saying he was the victim of a smear campaign.
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In 2014 Michael Mates received an apology and undisclosed damages from the Crown Prosecution Service.
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Michael Mates described the 18 months between the allegations and his vindication as "a nightmare".
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The Panama Papers revealed that Michael Mates was minority shareholder of an offshore investment company named Haylandale Limited from 2005 to at least April 2010, the end of his parliamentary period, and owned four subsidiary firms from August 2007 to December 2008 for leasing and services connected to luxury properties in The Bahamas.
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Michael Mates had previously declared that he was the remunerated Chairman of Haylandale, which undertook property development in the West Indies, in the Register of Members' Interests for the period of 2005 to 2010.
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Michael Mates has been married three times: to Mary Rosamund Paton in 1959, divorced 1980; Rosellen Bett in 1982, divorced 1995; and Christine Robinson-Moltke in 1998.
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Michael Mates is the father of James Mates, a senior reporter and presenter for ITN.