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British politician

Sir Malcolm Thornton

4th Pro-Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University
Incumbent
Assumed office 2007
Preceded by	Cdre. Rod Walker DL
Member of Parliament for Crosby
In office 9 June 1983 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by	Shirley Williams
Succeeded by	Claire Curtis-Thomas
Member of Parliament for Liverpool Garston
In office 3 May 1979 – 13 May 1983
Preceded by	Eddie Loyden
Succeeded by	Eddie Loyden
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Councillor for North Liscard-Upper Brighton Street
In office 12 April 1973 – 3 May 1979
Preceded by	Council Created
Succeeded by	B. Nottage
Leader of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
In office 1974–1977
Preceded by	Bill Whitehurst
Succeeded by	Harry Deverill

Personal details
Born	(1939-04-03) 3 April 1939 (age 85)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Rosemary, Lady Thornton

Sir George Malcolm Thornton FRSA (born 3 April 1939) is a British Conservative politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Garston from 1979 to 1983, and for Crosby from 1983 to 1997.

Education

He was educated at Wallasey Grammar School and later attended Liverpool Nautical College.

Political career

Thornton was first elected to Parliament in the 1979 general election, winning the marginal seat of Liverpool Garston from Labour's Eddie Loyden. In the early 1980s, however, all seats were re-organised with the new boundaries set to come in at the next election. Liverpool Garston would lean strongly towards Labour, so Thornton sought a safer seat in Crosby, just outside Liverpool. However, following the death of Sir Graham Page in 1981, Shirley Williams, a former Labour Cabinet minister who had founded the centrist SDP a few months earlier, won the seat. That by-election had been held in the depths of Margaret Thatcher's unpopularity; however, after that the economy returned to growth and Britain won the Falklands War, so Thatcher called an election in 1983 which was a Tory landslide. Thornton regained the seat, while Eddie Loyden won a redrawn Garston for Labour. However, by 1997, the Conservatives were again deeply unpopular and Thornton lost, by a surprisingly wide margin to Labour's Claire Curtis-Tansley.

In 2007, Sir Malcolm Thornton became the 4th and current Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Board of Governors for Liverpool John Moores University.

References

"BIOGRAPHY: SIR MALCOLM THORNTON FRSA" (PDF). Value Based Solutions. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
"New Pro-Chancellor for LJMU". Liverpool John Moores University. Archived from the original on 23 December 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.

Times Guide to the House of Commons 1997
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Malcolm Thornton

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byEddie Loyden	Member of Parliament for Liverpool Garston 1979 – 1983	Succeeded byEddie Loyden
Preceded byShirley Williams	Member of Parliament for Crosby 1983 – 1997	Succeeded byClaire Curtis-Thomas
Academic offices
Preceded byCdre. Rod Walker	Pro-Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University 2007	Succeeded byIncumbent

v t e Liverpool John Moores University
People	Chancellor Nisha Katona Pro-Chancellor Malcolm Thornton Vice-Chancellor Mark Power John Moores Henry Cotton
Campuses	City Campus: Avril Robarts Library College of Technology and Museum Extension James Parsons Building Tom Reilly Building Mount Pleasant Campus: Aldham Robarts Library John Lennon Art and Design Building Liverpool College of Art John Moores Students' Union Other: Halls of residence Liverpool Telescope I.M. Marsh Campus (until 2021)
Schools and institutes	Liverpool School of Art and Design Astrophysics Research Institute
Other	Academic dress
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