Alan Tyrrell
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Alan Rupert Tyrrell, QC (27 June 1933 – 23 October 2014) was a British lawyer and Conservative Party politician.[1]
Biography
[edit]Alan Tyrrell was born on 27 June 1933 in the Belgian Congo where his parents Trevor Tyrrell and Winifred Mackenzie were missionaries.[2] He studied law at the London School of Economics and qualified as a barrister with the Gray's Inn Bar Association in 1956. He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1976, and appeared in a number of controversial cases.
Tyrrell was elected as Conservative member of the European Parliament for London East in 1979, but lost his seat in 1984,[3] and was defeated again in 1989.
Tyrrell later became a deputy high court judge. He died on 23 October 2014, at the age of 81.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Alan Tyrrell – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
- ^ Taylor, Ursula Winifred; Aldrich, John (2022). "Winifred Mackenzie: Statistician, missionary, mother". Significance. 19 (5): 35–37. doi:10.1111/1740-9713.01689. S2CID 252533061.
- ^ Linton, Martin (18 June 1984). "Alliance trailing in third as Tories drop 14 seats". The Guardian. p. 1. Retrieved 27 December 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
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