Background
He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was the grandson of the electrical engineer and inventor Sebastian de Ferranti.
He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was the grandson of the electrical engineer and inventor Sebastian de Ferranti.
Eton College; Trinity College.
He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1955 general election in the Labour-held Manchester Exchange constituency. He held the seat at the 1959 general election, but stood down from Parliament at the 1964 election. He had held ministerial office only briefly, as Parliamentary Secretary for Aviation from July to October 1962.
He later became a member (1973–1979) and chairman (1976–1978) of the European Economic and Social Committee.
He represented the Hampshire West constituency from 1979 to 1984, and Hampshire Central from 1984 until his death.
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In 1958, he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Morecambe and Lonsdale at a by-election in 1958, following the elevation to the peerage of the constituency"s Conservative Member of Parliament, Ian Fraser. He subsequently became a Member of the European Parliament (Member of the European Parliament), and a Vice President from 1979 to 1982.