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| The Right HonourableThe Lord Dykes | |
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 Official Portrait | |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 21 June 2004 Life Peerage | |
| Member of Parliament for Harrow East | |
| In office 18 June 1970 – 1 May 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Roy Roebuck |
| Succeeded by | Tony McNulty |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1939-05-17) 17 May 1939 (age 85) |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats Conservative (until 1997) |
| Spouse | Susan Margaret Smith |
Hugh John Maxwell Dykes, Baron Dykes, (born 17 May 1939) is a British politician and member of the House of Lords. Initially a Europhile Conservative, he later defected to the Liberal Democrats.
Family and education
Dykes was educated at Weston-super-Mare Grammar School, Somerset, followed by Pembroke College, Cambridge. He married Susan Margaret Smith in 1966 and they had three sons. They divorced in 2000. Dykes has been with Sarah Allder since 2003.
Life and career
After unsuccessfully contesting Tottenham in 1966, Dykes served as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Harrow East from 1970 until he lost his seat at the 1997 general election. He also served as a Member of the European Parliament between 1974 and 1977. While an MP, Dykes served in the Ministry of Defence and the Cabinet Office in Edward Heath's government.
Following the defeat of Kenneth Clarke in the Conservative leadership contest following the 1997 general election, Dykes joined the Liberal Democrats. Within a year of joining the party, he came to serve as an adviser to Paddy Ashdown on European Union affairs.
He has served as chairman of the European Movement-UK and as vice president of the British-German Association. In 1991 he was awarded the German Order of Merit, followed by the Luxembourg Médaille pour l'Europe in 1993.
In 2004, Dykes was raised to the peerage as Baron Dykes, of Harrow Weald in the London Borough of Harrow. The same year he received the French Légion d'Honneur. He currently sits as a crossbench member.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Hugh Dykes
- TheyWorkForYou page on Lord Dykes
- Lord Dykes profile at the site of Liberal Democrats
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded byRoy Roebuck | Member of Parliament for Harrow East 1970 – 1997 |
Succeeded byTony McNulty |
- 1939 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Liberal Democrats (UK) life peers
- UK MPs 1970–74
- UK MPs 1974
- UK MPs 1974–79
- UK MPs 1979–83
- UK MPs 1983–87
- UK MPs 1987–92
- UK MPs 1992–97
- Conservative Party (UK) MEPs
- Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- MEPs for the United Kingdom 1973–1979
- Legion of Honour recipients