Biography:
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Charles MORRISON, M.P. (Devizes)
Charles (Andrew) Morrison was born in 1932, and was educated at Eton and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.
He did his National Service in the Life Guards, and served in England and Germany 1950-52; and was in the Territorial Army with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry from 1952 until 1966.
He farms in Wiltshire and in Argyll.
In 1954 he married the Hon. Sara Long, and they have two children, Anabel born in December 1955 and David born in January 1959. Mrs. Morrison was made a Vice. Chairman of the Party in 1971.
Mr Morrison was a member of the Wiltshire County Council from 1958 to 1955. He was on the Finance and Smallholdings committees, and was Chairman of the Education Committee 1963-64.
Charles Morrison has been a Wiltshire representative on the County Councils Association. He has served on the governing bodies of a Secondary Modern School and a Technical College, and was Chairman of the South-Western Regional Sports Council. In June 1970 he was made Chairman of the Young Volunteer Force Foundation, and in July 1972 was made Chairman of the Council of the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers.
He was adonted for Devizes in June 1963, won the seat at a by-election the following year, and has held it in the three General Elections since.
Mr Morrison has been a member of the Conservative National Advisory Committee on Local Government since 1964, and has been Chairman of its Educatin Sub-Committer.
From 1965-1967 he was Secretary of the Conservative Parliamentary Education Committee, and in 1966 a member of the executive of the 1922 Committee.
Mr Morrison was Opposition Front Rench spokesman on Sport 1967-70.
In April 1972 he becure Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Committee.