Dominic Charles Robert Grieve

Biography

Dominic Grieve was re-elected MP for Beaconsfield in May 2010 with a majority of 21,782.

He became attorney general after the formation of the coalition government and the 2010 general election.

DOMINIC GRIEVE was born in 1956. He was educated at Westminster School and Magdalen College Oxford, where he studied Modern History. He was called to the Bar in 1980.

He is married to Caroline who is also a barrister and they have two boys, James aged 13 and Hugo aged 12.

He was elected Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield in 1997. He has been Secretary of the Conservative Backbench Committee on the Constitution, Legal Affairs and Northern Ireland. He was a Member of the Select Committee on Environmental Audit and the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments from 1997-1999.

In June 1999 he was appointed by the then Leader of the Party, William Hague, to be the Conservative spokesman for Scotland. In September 2001 he was appointed by the Leader of the Party Iain Duncan-Smith to be the Conservative spokesman for criminal justice and community cohesion as part of the Shadow Home Affairs team. In November 2003, under the leadership of Michael Howard, Dominic was appointed Shadow Attorney General together with his frontbench role in criminal justice matters, constitutional affairs and ethnic diversity. David Cameron then appointed Dominic as his Shadow Home Secretary in June 2008.

He has been a local councillor in Fulham in the 1980s, and Chairman of the Research Committee of the Society of Conservative Lawyers as well as a lay visitor to police stations. He has been a Member of the London Diocesan Synod of the Church of England and is a deputy Church Warden.

His areas of strong political interest include Law and Order, Constitution, European Union, Defence, Environment and Foreign Affairs.

He enjoys canoeing and boating on the Thames at weekends, mountain climbing, skiing and fell walking, architecture, art and travel.

Constituency

Beaconsfield

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Constituency Address

Constituency Tel

Date of Birth

24 May 1956

Email

grieved@parliament.uk

Party

Conservative

Personal Website

www.dominicgrieve.org.uk

Westminster Address

House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA

Westminster Tel

020 7219 6220