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a team of industrialists to Africa to generate exports Sep '85; resisted pressure to abolish standing charges Nov '85; reassured MPs that release of radioactivity at Sellafield was no risk to public Feb '86; told European Nuclear Congress that UK Government's faith in nuclear energy was unshaken by Chernobyl June '86; again insisted nuclear power was "safe, clean and cheap" Sep '86; led export-promoting team to Jordan and Turkey Oct '86; said: "safety of nuclear installations is a matter for national [not international] authorities" Feb '87; voted against death penalty for "evil killings" Apr '87; increased his majority by 1,000 votes June '87; lost his post June '87; asked batch of questions about schizophrenics Oct '87; urged Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan Dec '87; urged better resettlement of Vietnamese refugees, including in empty houses in North of England Dec '87; said people in Hongkong did not want to be rushed into direct elections Jan '88; voted against televising Commons Feb '88; voted for charges on dental checks Apr '88; voted against restoring death penalty June '88; defended Leon Brittan's appointment as European Commissioner July '88; welcomed Water Bill as "one of the most important advances in environmental legislation" Dec '88; co-sponsored Definitive Map Modification Bill Dec '88; expressed interest in increasing foreign manufacturing investment in the Northwest of England Mar '89; was named Comptroller (No 3 in Whips' Office) July '89; Born 4 July 1943 Lincoln
Family S Dr John Goodlad, psychiatrist, and late Isabel (Sinclair); m '68 Cecilia Barbara (Hurst), d of late Colonel Richard Hurst and Lady Barbara Hurst; 2s Magnus '72, William '74;
Education St Faith's, Cambridge; Marlborough College (with Peter Brooke); King's College, Cambridge (Trevelyan Scholar, History Exhibitioner; LLB in International Law, MA);
Occupation Lloyd's Underwriter '77-; ex: Adviser on Government Affairs to Bowater Corporation (Chairman, Bowater Far East Ltd '73-79) '79-81; Chairman: Cathay Securities (Director '71-77), Temmengong Ltd (Director '71-77) 74, Indonesia Consolidated '73-77; Director of Ralli International (in SE Asia) '73; Executive of Harold Whitehead and Company (Management Consultants) '66-67; in VSO was Assistant Housemaster in Johannesburg home for boys from broken homes;
Traits Blond receding hair; pink-cheeked; bucolic appearance; bland-seeming; dead-pan delivery; heavy-boned; "an episcopal figure...hard as brass" (Julian Critchley, DAILY TELEGRAPH); shrewd; witty; "jovial...very cheery...looks like a farmer lately returned from milking but is popularly reputed to be immensely rich" (Julia Langdon, PUNCH); fine squash, bridge player (in Commons bridge team '83, '87, '88); in damp Blue Chip dining club '87; "I was brought up in a mental hospital, so I had no problem adjusting to the Commons";
Address House of Commons, Westminster, London SW1A 0AA; Telephone 08292 2255; 01 219 6503 (H of C);
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We are sad if our files on former MPs are used only for obituaries. Some ex-MPs, of course, are reincarnated as peers. Robert Maxwell, for example, looms larger in other fields since being forced to abandon the pale blue suit he wore as an MP. It is only the death of an MP or peer that persuades us to hand our files over to the LSE library,
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