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British politician (1933?2014)
Sir Michael Jon Neubert
(3 September 1933 ? 3 January 2014) was
Conservative
MP
for
Romford
from 1974 until 1997. His loss in the landslide
1997 general election
was considered something of a surprise.
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He was educated at
Bromley Grammar School
and
Downing College, Cambridge
, and worked as a travel and industrial
consultant
. He was a local councillor and alderman in
Bromley
1960?1974 being council leader for a time and
Mayor
of Bromley in 1972.
He contested the parliamentary seat of
Hammersmith North
in 1966, and Romford in 1970, before being elected in February 1974. From 1983 he held several junior government posts, and was Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement at the
Ministry of Defence
1989?1990.
In April 1990 he visited
Gruinard Island
to declare the island safe after
World War II
Anthrax
experiments.
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Neubert and his wife, Sally, had one son. He died on 3 January 2014, at the age of 80, in
Cheltenham
.
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