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John Hemming (John Alexander Melvin Hemming) was born on 16 March, 1960 in Birmingham, England, is a British politician (born 1960). Discover John Hemming'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 63 years old?

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Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 16 March, 1960
Birthday 16 March
Birthplace Birmingham, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1960

John Alexander Melvin Hemming (born 16 March 1960) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and businessman who served as the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley from 2005 until 2015.

1969

He was the first Liberal Democrat or Liberal to represent a Birmingham constituency since Wallace Lawler had briefly held Birmingham Ladywood after a 1969 by-election.

1983

Hemming was a candidate in Birmingham seats at all general elections since 1983: in that year at (Hall Green), 1987 (Small Heath) and 1992, 1997 and 2001 (Yardley) before winning in 2005.

1990

Hemming was first elected to Birmingham City Council in 1990, in Acocks Green ward.

1997

In 1997, Hemming also set up his own record company, Music Mercia International.

2004

In 2004, Hemming became deputy leader of Birmingham City Council in a deal whereby the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed a coalition to jointly administer the council.

He moved to the South Yardley ward following boundary changes in 2004 and was Leader of Birmingham City Council's Liberal Democrat Group.

As a councillor, he campaigned against election fraud, and in 2004 he drafted a petition which overturned the election of three Labour Party councillors in the ward of Aston.

2005

He stood down from this position upon being elected to the House of Commons in 2005.

2006

On 13 January 2006, Hemming withdrew his candidature, saying that Lib Dem members did not believe he should stand.

He was a nominator for Mark Oaten, but said he would be willing to do the same for any serious candidate.

He subsequently declared for the eventual winner, Sir Menzies Campbell.

2007

In 2007, Hemming became the Liberal Democrat Spokesman for the West Midlands and led the West Midlands Liberal Democrat team of spokespeople, with Solihull MP Lorely Burt as the Deputy Leader.

Hemming was born in Birmingham.

His father was an electrical contractor and his mother was a supply teacher.

He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he won the Rickard Prize for Arithmetic and was a Scholar specialising in Theoretical, Atomic, and Nuclear Physics at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he showed an early interest in politics, standing as the Liberal Party candidate for Secretary of the Oxford University Student Union.

He was beaten into fourth place by the "Silly Party" candidate – the pet dog of the master of St Catherine's College, Oxford.

Hemming is a director of JHC plc, a provider of software applications and related services for the financial industry.

Its products include trading, asset management and settlement systems for brokers and investment managers.

2008

Hemming was an elected councillor for the South Yardley Ward and Group Chair of the Liberal Democrats on Birmingham City Council until 1 May 2008 and was elected as the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley at the 2005 general election.

Hemming also aided the case of financial journalist Leah McGrath Goodman, who was banned from the UK for two years during her reporting work on the Jersey child abuse investigation 2008 and Haut de la Garenne.

The ban was reduced to one year after his actions on her behalf.

2009

In 2009, Hemming was awarded the Systems in the City Lifetime Achievement Award for his work with the company.

2010

He was re-elected in 2010, with a slightly increased majority.

Following Charles Kennedy's announcement that he would resign as Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Hemming announced on his weblog that he was taking soundings as to whether to stand.

When Kennedy subsequently resigned, Hemming said that he would stand to ensure there was a contest.

Hemming was a rank outsider in the contest (some betting odds were in excess of 400–1).

The Times reported that he was "an eccentric who left colleagues aghast by threatening to stand".

On 6 December 2010, Hemming's constituency office was temporarily closed by the police after it was occupied by protesters.

Hemming chaired both the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas (APPGOPO), a parliamentary group looking at the issues of fossil fuel depletion, and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Family Law and The Court of Protection set up to address the concerns raised by both the public and professionals working within the family justice system.

Hemming is a member of the Beveridge Group.

He won the "Reform" maths prize.

2011

JHC made Hemming a millionaire by the age of 27, and the company had an annual turnover of £12 million by 2011.

Hemming is an opponent of super- and hyper-injunctions, and in March 2011, used parliamentary privilege to reveal the existence of a super-injunction granted to former Royal Bank of Scotland chief Fred Goodwin during a sitting of the House of Commons.

Following an incident in Spring 2011, in which the names of celebrities who had allegedly taken out superinjunctions were revealed on Twitter, he again used parliamentary privilege to speak about the issue.

On 23 May 2011, during a Commons debate; he mentioned Ryan Giggs as the footballer involved in one privacy injunction.

In the final meeting of the House of Commons in the summer of 2011 before the session closed for summer recess, he mentioned details of an injunction and alleged cover-up involving a doctor employed by a Welsh NHS trust.

The said doctor is accused by a fellow doctor and surgical assistants of performing surgeries on cancer patients beyond his expertise, against guidelines and in so doing, endangering the lives of patients.

2012

He also made a motion in 2012 regarding St Helier Parish Deputy Trevor Pitman's petition to have her UK visa restored.

2013

A regular contributor to Mumsnet (a British parenting forum) for eleven years, Hemming posted in late-2013 about the case of an Italian woman sectioned in the UK with her newborn baby taken into care by UK Social Services.