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Eric Forth was born on 9 September, 1944 in Glasgow, Scotland, is a British politician (1944–2006). Discover Eric Forth'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?

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Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 9 September, 1944
Birthday 9 September
Birthplace Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death 17 May, 2006
Died Place London, England
Nationality Glasgow

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His wife is Linda St Clair (m. 1967-1994) Carroll Forth (m. 1994)

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1944

Eric Forth (9 September 1944 – 17 May 2006) was a British Conservative politician.

1968

Forth was elected as a councillor for the Pilgrims Hatch ward on the Brentwood Urban District Council from 1968 to 1972.

1974

He contested the safe Labour seat of Barking at both the February and October 1974 general elections, where on both occasions he was defeated by Labour's Jo Richardson.

1975

He was the secretary of Llandeilo Conservative Association from 1975 to 1977, and chairman of the Ross-on-Wye Conservative Political Committee from 1978 to 1979.

1979

He served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Birmingham North from 1979 to 1984.

He was elected to the European Parliament as the member for Birmingham North in 1979.

1983

He then served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Worcestershire from 1983 to 1997.

He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1983 general election with a majority of 14,205 votes for the new seat of Mid-Worcestershire.

His political views were apparent from his maiden speech, in which he attacked the Sex Equality Bill, and he was an early member of the No Turning Back group.

Following boundary changes to his constituency, he was not selected to fight the new seat with the same name, losing out to the sitting MP for Worcester, Peter Luff.

Forth found a safe seat in the Outer London suburbs for Bromley and Chislehurst in the heart of the large London Borough of Bromley.

1984

He remained in Brussels and Strasbourg until 1984, where he founded and chaired the backbench committee of the European Democratic Group.

Originally in favour of membership of the European Economic Community, he later became a staunch Eurosceptic.

1986

In Parliament, he served on the Employment select committee in 1986 until later in the year when he was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Angela Rumbold at the Department for Education and Science.

1988

Forth served as a junior minister in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1988 and 1997.

In his obituaries, he was described as "colourful", "flamboyant", "provocative" and a "right-wing libertarian".

He was noted for his colourful ties and waistcoats.

Forth was born in Glasgow.

His father was a harbourmaster.

He was educated at the Jordanhill College School and the University of Glasgow, where he was awarded a master's degree in politics and economics.

Before entering politics, he worked in junior managerial roles at Xerox, Rank and Ford Motor Company before becoming a management consultant with Deloitte and Dexion.

After standing as a communist at a mock school-election and flirting with distributism at university, Forth developed both conservative and libertarian leanings.

He entered the government of Margaret Thatcher when she appointed him as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry in 1988, as minister for consumer affairs.

1990

He was moved by John Major in 1990 to the same position at the Department for Employment and at the Department of Education following the 1992 general election.

1994

He was promoted to Minister of State for Education in 1994 and became a member of the Privy Council in 1996, shortly before leaving office in 1997.

1997

Finally, he served as MP for Bromley and Chislehurst from 1997 until his death in 2006.

He was elected to represent the seat in 1997, 2001 and 2005.

Forth had hoped to support Michael Portillo for the leadership of the Conservative Party, to follow Major, but Portillo famously lost his seat in the 1997 general election.

Forth was then Peter Lilley's campaign manager until the latter withdrew, then supported John Redwood, and finally backed eventual winner William Hague.

Forth refused the offer of a place in the Conservative shadow ministerial team and instead became a leading backbench irritant to the Labour government, engaging in "a Parliamentary form of guerrilla warfare".

Initially acting as a loner and concentrating on private members bills to which he objected, Forth soon gathered a small group around him known as "the awkward squad".

In 1997, with senior Conservative MPs David Maclean and Patrick McLoughlin, he established the Policy Research Unit, a subscription briefing service available to any MP as a means of countering the briefings that government ministers receive from the civil service.

Disliking e-mail, he would send brief written notes to like-minded MPs to say "I am given to understand that the Powers That Be think that Wednesday's business will go through easily", and his group would ensure that Wednesday's business did not go through easily.

Forth's speciality was the filibuster: as Labour MPs found themselves often required to remain in Parliament past midnight, they called him "Bloody Eric Forth" (a reaction Forth welcomed).

2001

Iain Duncan Smith appointed Forth Shadow Leader of the House of Commons in 2001.

After William Hague announced his support for an "election compact" promoted by the Commission for Racial Equality in 2001, Forth was quoted as saying at a private dinner: "All this sucking up to minorities is ridiculous; there are millions of people in this country who are white, Anglo-Saxon and bigoted and they need to be represented."

2003

Forth backed David Davis to replace Duncan Smith in 2003: Davis refused to stand, and Forth was dismissed from his front-bench position by Michael Howard.

He served on many Parliamentary committees and his last role was chairing the statutory instruments committee.

He was a member of the speaker's Panel of Chairmen.

Forth was in favour of capital punishment, but opposed corporal punishment in schools.