1. The third child of Dr William Stuttaford, MC and his wife, Marjorie, Stuttaford was born in Horning, Norfolk.
17 Facts About Thomas Stuttaford
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Thomas Stuttaford was educated at Gresham's School and Brasenose College, Oxford.
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Thomas Stuttaford continued practicing medicine as a consultant for Bupa for most of his time in parliament.
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Thomas Stuttaford was a partner in a small private practice.
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From 1970 to 1974 Thomas Stuttaford was the Conservative MP for Norwich South.
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Thomas Stuttaford was a frequent dissenter from the Conservative Government's line in Parliament, including over the introduction of value added tax on children's shoes, the ending of free school milk for older primary school children, and the introduction of museum charges.
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Thomas Stuttaford took a leading role within parliament in the campaign, led by The Sunday Times, to secure compensation for children born with birth defects arising out of their mothers' use of the drug Thalidomide during pregnancy.
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Thomas Stuttaford lost his Norwich South seat to John Garrett in the first general election of 1974.
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Thomas Stuttaford was first selected to oppose Freud for 1974's second general election.
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In 1981, Thomas Stuttaford was recruited by the then editor of The Times, Harold Evans, to be the paper's medical correspondent, a role he retained until January 2009.
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Thomas Stuttaford had worked with Evans during the latter's campaign to secure compensation for the victims of thalidomide.
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Thomas Stuttaford filed his last piece for the magazine just a few days before his death.
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Thomas Stuttaford was a frequent contributor to Healthspan, an online retailer of vitamin supplements, and occasionally to other national newspapers and journals.
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Thomas Stuttaford was accused by Dr Ben Goldacre in The Guardian of using an article in The Times to promote energy replacement pills that appear to have nothing more than a placebo effect.
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Thomas Stuttaford was parodied in the satirical magazine Private Eye as 'Dr Thomas Utterfraud'.
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Thomas Stuttaford married Pamela Ropner on 1 June 1957; they remained married until her death on 4 July 2013.
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The couple had three sons: Andrew, Thomas Stuttaford, and Hugo; the eldest, Andrew, is an editor of National Review.