Antony Brian Baldry

Biography

Tony Baldry was successfully re-elected as MP for Banbury in May 2010 with a majority of 18,227 votes.

Born in 1950, Baldry was educated at Leighton Park School and the University of Sussex. He reached the rank of Colonel in the Territorial Army during his nearly 20 years in the Royal Artillery from 1971. In 1974 he became a personal assistant to Margaret Thatcher, and was Called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1975, after which he became a director at the New Opportunity Press. He won the Robert Schumann Silver Medal in 1978, and until his election was the Vice President of The National Children's Home.

From 1985 to 1990, Baldry was a Parliamentary Private Secretary, successively to Lynda Chalker and John Wakeham. Following the election of John Major as Prime Minister in 1990, Baldry finally entered government initially as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Energy and was moved sideways later in the year to the Department for the Environment. In 1994, he moved sideways again to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 1995 he was promoted to the rank of Minister of State at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, a position he held until the fall of the Major government in 1997.

Constituency

Banbury

Twitter

@TonyBaldry

Constituency Address

North Oxfordshire Conservative Association 16a North Bar Banbury Oxfordshire OX16 0TF

Constituency Tel

Date of Birth

10 July 1950

Email

baldryt@parliament.uk

Party

Conservative

Personal Website

http://www.tonybaldry.org.uk/index.jsp

Westminster Address

Westminster Tel

02072193000