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EDWARD BICKHAM
Born: 10 August 1956 in Poole, Dorset
Home address: D, Cornwall Court
Cleaver Street
London SE11 4DF
Telephone: 071-735 5682 (h) 071-270 2110 (o)
Occupation: Special Adviser to Rt Hon Douglas Hurd CBE MP, Foreign
Secretary
Summary
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Edward Bickham was educated at Brockenhurst Grammar School before graduating in Law from St John's College, Oxford. He has served as an Adviser in three government departments and was asked to return to Whitehall to assist Ministers with presentational aspects of the Gulf conflict. He has also worked in the media and publishing. has proved himself an active and effective worker in the Conservative cause as a Young Conservative, with voluntary organisations and in a tough inner constituency both as an association officer and as a candidate. His interests include tennis, cinema, history and travel.
Work for the Party
Fought: Vauxhall Parliamentary Constituency for ILEA elections 1986
Lambeth Council seat
Officer Vauxhall Conservative Association
National Union Executive Committee as International
Officer of the Federation of Conservative Students President, Oxford University Conservative Association Chairman, New Forest Young Conservatives
Career
1982
1984-91
1977-78
1977
1973
Director, British Satellite Broadcasting with oversight
of regulatory issues, corporate communications, programme standards and publicity
1988-90
Special Adviser to the Home Secretary
1985-88
to the Northern Ireland Secretary
1983-85
Conservative Research Department - European Desk Officer Macmillan Publishers - reporting to Chairman
1980-83
1977-80
Other Political Experience
Guest of US Government for individual fact-finding tour looking at policy on inner cities, police and prisons Governor three Inner London Schools
1987
1982-88
Awarded, Robert Schuman Silver Medal
1983
Treasurer, British Youth Council
Founding Editor 'The European' magazine
Chairman, Commission on Young Homelessness
1980-81
1979-81 1978-1980
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