Born 10 May 1940 Marries Biddy in 1965, three children Educated Stonyhurst College and Lincoln College, Oxford University (MA History) Lawyer Adviser to major UK and international companies, public authorities and governments, eg. CBI, Lloyds of London, United Kingdom Offshore Operators Association (entire oil industry), British Airports Authority, Shell, ICI, leading City Solicitors, Quebec, etc. Consultant to Radcliffes & Co. Chairman Conservative Party European Affairs Committee 1989-1991 East Africa Committee 1987 to date Vice President Small Business Bureau 1986 to date Member Banking Bill Committee 1987 Financial Services Committee 1986 Select Committee on European Legislation 1985 to date Select Committee on Employment 1986 Led the Euro rebels against the Maastricht Treaty on European Union 1992-3 from headquarters at 17 Great College Street; now re-elected Vice Chairman Conservative Party European Affairs Committee 1997 by secret ballot (Chairman now ex office Shadow Foreign Secretary) Wrote the keynote paper on the future of Europe for the Conservative Manifesto Committee at the invitation of Douglas Hurd (Foreign Secretary) 1991 and declined offer of Government office 1991. International speaker and current affairs analyst – Washington, New York, Paris, Prague, Strasbourg, Brussels, London, etc; Pacific Basin Economic Council 25th Anniversary (1992) in Vancouver, INSEAD Fontainebleau 1995, Tonnisteiner Kreis AGM 1996, College of Bruges 1996, Arthur Andersen 1996, Burda/Facus 1997, American Enterprise Institute (Phoenix, Arizona) 1997 – Atlantic Alliance Initiative. Guest of US Government 1991 for 6 weeks visiting length and breadth of USA and conferences with US businessmen and administrators about political and constitutional change in Europe and United States of America. Featured in Q & A (New York Times) 1993 and Wall Street Journal profile. Frequent international broadcasting eg. BBC (including Panorama), ITV, CNN, Sky, Bloomberg, France, Germany, Brussels, Japan, Scandinavia, BBC World Service. Author of Democratic Way to European Unity 1990, Against a Federal Europe 1991, Europe: The Crunch 1992, and many main feature articles on Europe in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent and other national newspapers and journals (1985 to date); also contributing essays to Visitors of Europe 1994 and others, eg. European Integration and American Interests (American Enterprise Institute) 1997. Defeated Edward Heath in debate at Oxford Union on Europe. Voted Parliamentary Campaigner of the Year 1991 by an independent panel of journalists. Chairman and founder of The European Foundation. | 
