Background
WILKINSON, John Arbuthnot Ducane was born on September 23, 1940 in Slough, United Kingdom. Parents: the late Denys Wilkinson and Gillian Avice Wilkinson (née Nairn).
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
WILKINSON, John Arbuthnot Ducane was born on September 23, 1940 in Slough, United Kingdom. Parents: the late Denys Wilkinson and Gillian Avice Wilkinson (née Nairn).
Eton; Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, French interpretership. Churchill College, Cambridge, Master of Arts, History, 1965. Spoken languages: French, German, Spanish.
He failed to regain the seat against Lyons in the following general election that same year. In the 1979 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament for Ruislip-Northwood, succeeding Petre Crowder, where he was re-elected in the successive general elections in 1983, 1987, 1992, 1997 and 2001. Wilkinson did not stand in the May 2005 general election, and the new member for Ruislip-Northwood is another Conservative, Nick Hurd.
By the time of his retirement, Wilkinson was one of the longest-serving Conservative MPs.
Wilkinson remained on the backbenches for most of his parliamentary career, apart from two brief periods as a Parliamentary Private Secretary (Parliamentary Private Secretary): to the Minister of State for Industry from 1979-1980 and to the Secretary of State for Defence from 1981-1982. Wilkinson was one of the Maastricht rebels, from whom the Conservative whip was withdrawn when they voted against legislation to ratify the Maastricht Treaty on European Union.
Wilkinson and the other rebels continued to oppose the European policy of Conservative Prime Minister John Major for much of the 1992-1997 parliament. Wilkinson was portrayed by Jasper Jacob in the 2002 British Broadcasting Corporation production of Ian Curteis"s controversial The Falklands Play.
Church of England
45th United Kingdom Parliament. 48th United Kingdom Parliament. 49th United Kingdom Parliament.
50th United Kingdom Parliament.
51st United Kingdom Parliament. 52nd United Kingdom Parliament.
53rd United Kingdom Parliament]
He was the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Bradford West from 1970 until February 1974, when he was defeated by the Labour candidate Edward Lyons. A former member of the Royal Air Force (Royal Air Force), he spoke frequently in debates on defence and from 1979-1990 he was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of The Western European Union (Western European Union).
He also served as a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Spouse 1st. m. dissolved, 1987, 2nd, m. Beatrice Maria Cecilia Cienfuegos, 1987. Children: Philippa, Alexander.