Education
University of Reading. Harrow School.
University of Reading. Harrow School.
Peter Aldous was born in Ipswich, Suffolk. He has lived in the north of the county for the majority of his life. His family own farms near Ipswich and the market town of Halesworth.
He was educated at Harrow School and graduated from the University of Reading with a degree in Land Management in 1982.
Before his election Aldous was as a chartered surveyor in Norwich. He is a keen squash player.
He supports Ipswich Town F.C. Aldous was elected as a councillor to Waveney District Council in 1999, serving until 2002. Aldous was selected to contest the 2005 general election as the Conservative Party candidate for Waveney but lost to the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament Bob Blizzard by a majority of 5,915.
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A former chartered surveyor in private practice intermittently elected to the role of ordinary councillor on the corresponding district council to his later constituency and then serving as deputy party group leader in the official opposition party on Suffolk County Council, he has been the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for the Waveney constituency in Suffolk since winning the seat at the 2010 general election. He was a member of Suffolk County Council between 2001 and 2005 and was Deputy Leader of the Conservative Group from 2002 until 2005.