Background
HOOSON, Hugh Emlyn Hooson was born on March 26, 1925. Parents: the late Hugh and Elsie Hooson.
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Hugh Emlyn Hooson HOOSON
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Denbigh Grammar School. University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Gray’s Inn, barrister.
Spoken languages: Welsh.
Career
Member of Parliament, 196279. Leader, Welsh Liberal Party, 1966-1979, and President, 1983. House of Lords, since 1979.
Vice-Chairman, Political Committee, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1975-1979. Barrister, since 1949. Queen's Counsel, since 1960.
Deputy Chairman, Flintshire and Merioneth Quarter Sessions, 1960. Chairman, Merioneth Quarter Sessions, 1967. Bencher, Gray’slnn, 1968,and ViceTreas., 1985,Treasurer, 1986.
Non-Exec. Director, Laura Ashley Holdings Pic. since 1985. Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil, 1971. Recorder of Swansea, 1971.
Crown Court Recorder from 1972. Leader, Wales and Chester Circuit, 1971-1974. President, Llangollen International Eisteddfod, 1987-1992.
Non Executive Chairman, Severn River Crossing Pic, since 1991.
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Spouse Shirley Margaret Wynne Hamer (nee Hamer), 1950.
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Political Party
Liberal Party. Social and Liberal Democrat Party