Philip Goodhart

November 3, 1925 (age 89)

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He contested Consett in 1950 whilst still a student at Trinity College, Cambridge. One of the unsuccessful candidates for the nomination in 1957 was the young Margaret Thatcher. In his book Referendum (Tom Stacey Limited, 1971) he argued that the referendum, then under discussion in the context of the United Kingdom joining the European Economic Community, could in fact serve to entrench constitutional safeguards that the United Kingdom then - as now - lacked, quoting Arthur Balfour"s contribution to the debate on the Parliament Bill (later the Parliament Acting 1911): "In the referendum lies our hope of getting the sort of constitutional security which every other country but our own enjoys.." (Referendum, p 205). He wrote the definitive account of the referendum campaign in 1975, Full-hearted Consent, and also The 1922: The Story of the 1922 Committee (with Ursula Branston. Macmillan, 1973). He was a junior Northern Ireland minister (1979–1981) and a junior Defence minister (1981). The couple lived in Whitebarn, Youlbury Woods. He died in 2015, aged 89.

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Goodhart attended The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.

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He contested Consett in 1950 whilst still a student at Trinity College, Cambridge. One of the unsuccessful candidates for the nomination in 1957 was the young Margaret Thatcher. In his book Referendum (Tom Stacey Limited, 1971) he argued that the referendum, then under discussion in the context of the United Kingdom joining the European Economic Community, could in fact serve to entrench constitutional safeguards that the United Kingdom then - as now - lacked, quoting Arthur Balfour"s contribution to the debate on the Parliament Bill (later the Parliament Acting 1911): "In the referendum lies our hope of getting the sort of constitutional security which every other country but our own enjoys.." (Referendum, p 205).

He wrote the definitive account of the referendum campaign in 1975, Full-hearted Consent, and also The 1922: The Story of the 1922 Committee (with Ursula Branston.

Macmillan, 1973). He was a junior Northern Ireland minister (1979–1981) and a junior Defence minister (1981). The couple lived in Whitebarn, Youlbury Woods.

He died in 2015, aged 89.

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41st United Kingdom Parliament. 42nd United Kingdom Parliament. 43rd United Kingdom Parliament.

44th United Kingdom Parliament.

45th United Kingdom Parliament. 46th United Kingdom Parliament.

47th United Kingdom Parliament. 48th United Kingdom Parliament.

49th United Kingdom Parliament.

50th United Kingdom Parliament]

He was elected Member of Parliament for Beckenham at a 1957 by-election, and served until his retirement in 1992. He was a member of the Founding Council of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

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