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Martin Horwood (Martin Charles Horwood) was born on 12 October, 1962 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, is a British Liberal Democrat politician. Discover Martin Horwood's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

Popular As Martin Charles Horwood
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Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 12 October 1962
Birthday 12 October
Birthplace Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1962

Martin Charles Horwood (born 12 October 1962) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who represented South West England in the European Parliament from 2019 to 2020.

1979

He joined the Cheltenham Young Liberals in 1979 while still at school.

1981

In 1981, he went on to read Modern History at The Queen's College, Oxford, and was elected president of the Oxford Student Liberal Society and then chair of the party's national student wing, the Union of Liberal Students.

Horwood stood twice unsuccessfully before gaining election.

1992

In 1992, he was defeated by Labour's Andrew Smith in the seat of Oxford East, he came third with 13% share of the vote.

2001

In 2001, he came third in Cities of London and Westminster, with 15.4% share of the vote.

Horwood was adopted as parliamentary candidate for Cheltenham following the decision by sitting Liberal Democrat MP Nigel Jones to stand down.

2005

He previously served as the Member of Parliament for Cheltenham from 2005 to 2015.

During his tenure, he founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tribal Peoples.

Horwood now serves as Director of Engagement and Impact at Development Initiatives.

Horwood was born in St. Paul's, Cheltenham.

His parents lived first in St. Mark's and then in Leckhampton, where his mother still lives.

He attended two independent schools in Cheltenham, Pate's Junior School and Cheltenham College.

At the latter, he was a contemporary of fellow MP Chris Bryant and sat next to him in English classes.

Horwood was elected at the 2005 general election, winning the seat with a majority of 2,303 over the Conservatives, although the Liberal Democrats' share of the vote fell by 6.2%.

He was appointed by his party to the select committee scrutinising the work of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister – now the Department for Communities and Local Government.

In July 2005, then party leader Charles Kennedy appointed Horwood to the Shadow Home Affairs team, before he was promoted by Menzies Campbell to be Shadow Environment Minister, under Chris Huhne, whom Horwood had backed in the party's leadership election.

Horwood was the chairman and founder of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tribal Peoples.

2007

Created in 2007, the APPG for Tribal Peoples is composed of over 30 cross-party MPs and peers with the aim of raising parliamentary and public awareness of tribal peoples.

Its secretariat is the international indigenous rights organisation, Survival International.

The Group meets two or three times a year and one of its main objectives is to press for ratification of ILO Convention 169 on the rights of indigenous and tribal peoples.

Horwood was also the Secretary of the APPG on corporate responsibility.

2009

In March 2009, Horwood was one of several MPs used as examples by the BBC looking at the reliability of Wikipedia.

He urged Wikipedia to crack down upon abuses of the open editing facility and "acts of political vandalism".

2010

In December 2010, Horwood attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancún, Mexico with fellow Liberal Democrat, then Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne.

Despite having secured over 50% of the vote in the 2010 general election, with a 9.3% swing and a 3,920-vote majority, Horwood lost his seat during the national Liberal Democrat collapse in the 2015 general election, losing to the Conservative candidate Alex Chalk.

2015

Since 2015, Horwood has been director of engagement and impact at Development Initiatives.

2017

He unsuccessfully attempted to regain his seat during the 2017 general election, although he reduced Chalk's majority by 7.6%.

2018

In 2018 he also won an election to Cheltenham Borough Council, becoming councillor for the Leckhampton ward.

2019

In the 2019 European Parliament election, Horwood was selected by the Liberal Democrats to contest the six-member constituency of South West England; he was second on the party's list.

The party polled 23.2% in the constituency and Horwood was elected.

As of February 2021, Horwood was a member of Cheltenham Borough Council.

He is Cabinet Member for Corporate affairs.