Tony Baldry is no longer a Member of Parliament. This page has not been updated since 2015.
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
Constituency Address: North Oxfordshire Conservative Association
16a North Bar
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX16 0TF
Date of Birth: 10 July 1950
Party: Conservative
Personal Website: http://www.tonybaldry.org.uk/index.jsp
Twitter: @TonyBaldry
