Education
Corrie was educated at Kirkcudbright Academy,George Watson"s College, Edinburgh and Lincoln Agricultural College, New Zealand.
Corrie was educated at Kirkcudbright Academy,George Watson"s College, Edinburgh and Lincoln Agricultural College, New Zealand.
He describes himself in Who"s Who as a "consultant on African affairs and financial adviser to developing countries". He is a farmer, and was the Nuffield Scholar in agriculture 1972/1973. He was Chairman of the Young Unionists 1963-1964.
Corrie contested North Lanarkshire in 1964 and Central Ayrshire in 1966.
Although he stood in 1992 for Argyll and Bute, he was defeated and did not return to the Commons. He was an Member of the European Parliament twice in the period when it was indirectly elected, from 1975 to 1976 and from 1977 to 1979.
He was later elected the Member of the European Parliament for Worcestershire and South Warwickshire and from 1994 to 1999, and then for the multi-seat West Midlands constituency from European Parliament election, 1999. He was Company-President of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific Joint Parliamentary Assembly from 1999–2002, and is now Honorary Life President.
46th United Kingdom Parliament. 47th United Kingdom Parliament. 48th United Kingdom Parliament.
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He was Member of Parliament for Bute and Northern Ayrshire from February 1974 to 1983, and for Cunninghame North from 1983 until the 1987 general election, when he lost his seat to the Labour Party candidate Brian Wilson.
Corrie was also a Member of the European Parliament (Member of the European Parliament) for three periods. Mr. Corrie now also sits as member of the AWEPA Governing Council.