Background
MEACHER, Michael was born on November 4, 1939 in Hemel Hempstead, Herts. Son of late George H. and Doris M. (nee Foxell) Meacher.
MEACHER, Michael was born on November 4, 1939 in Hemel Hempstead, Herts. Son of late George H. and Doris M. (nee Foxell) Meacher.
Berkhamsted School, New College, Oxford and London School of Economics.
Member of Parliament for Oldham West, since 1970. Parliamentary Under Secretary ofState, Department of Industry, 1974-1975. Under Secretary ofState, Department of Health and Social Security, 1975-1976.
Under Secretary ofState, Department of Trade, 1976-1979. Member. Treasury Civil Service Select Committee, 1980-1983. Principal Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Health and Social Security, 1983-1987, and on Employment, 1987-1989, and on Social Security, since 1989.
Member. Shadow Cabinet, since 1983. Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee, since 1983. Shadow Minister for Development and Co-operation, since 1992.
Secretary, Danilo Dolci Trust, 1964. Sembal Research Fellow in Social Gerontology, University of Essex, 1965-1966. Lecturer in Social Administration.
University of York, 1966-1969, and at the London School of Economics, 1970.
The Care of Old People, Fabian Society, 1969. Taken for a Ride, Special Residential Homes for the Elderly Mentally Infirm, A Study of Separatism in Social Policy, 1972. Socialism with a Human Face, the Political Economy in the 1980’s, 1982.Diffusing Power - The Key to Socialist Revival, 1992.
Anglican.
National; Treasury Select Committee 1980-1983. Child Poverty Action Group and other voluntary organisations.
Music; reading; sport.
Married 1st Molly C. (nee Reid) in 1962 (divorced in 1985). Married 2nd Lucianne Craven in 1988.