1. John Rankin "Tim" Rathbone was a British businessman and Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament for the seat of Lewes between 1974 and 1997.
15 Facts About Tim Rathbone
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Tim Rathbone's mother, American-born Beatrice Wright, then succeeded him as MP at the by-election, serving until 1945.
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Tim Rathbone was a great-nephew of Eleanor Rathbone, who had been an independent MP for the Combined English Universities between 1929 and 1946, and a staunch women's rights campaigner.
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Tim Rathbone was a great-grandson of William Rathbone, a Liberal MP for Liverpool and later Carnarvonshire.
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Tim Rathbone was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
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Tim Rathbone was relatively ineffectual in this position, partly because his brief overlapped with other Conservative staffers.
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Tim Rathbone moved to the Charles Barker Group, a leading advertising agency in 1968, where he remained for 18 years.
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Tim Rathbone was appointed to a string of directorships within the group and was managing director of Ayer Barker until 1974.
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Tim Rathbone was a staunch critic of apartheid: On a visit to Rhodesia, he proposed ousting Ian Smith and holding transitional elections for a majority black government.
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Tim Rathbone did not achieve high ministerial office however because of his rebelling tendencies, and was perceived as a "wet".
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Tim Rathbone opposed the Bill that scrapped the Greater London Council and other metropolitan authorities in 1984, and the poll tax.
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Tim Rathbone became Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Drug Misuse.
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Tim Rathbone was a relation of, and godfather to, the future Conservative leader David Cameron, and once employed a university-aged Cameron as a researcher.
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Tim Rathbone died from cancer in London on 12 July 2002, at the age of 69.
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Tim Rathbone is buried in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, Lowick, Northamptonshire.