HENRY BELLINGHAM

'Henry Campbell Bellingham' (born 29 March 1955) is an English politician and barrister. He is Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Norfolk, and a member of the Conservative Party.

Contents

Early life

Parliamentary career

Business Interests

Personal life

Trivia

External links

Video clips

Early life

He attended Eton and then Magdelene College, Cambridge where he gained a degree in law in 1977 - taking a short service commission in the Guards for a year between school and university. He joined the Middle Temple in 1978 and practised as a barrister for eight years.

Parliamentary career

Bellingham first entered Parliament at the 1983 election, but lost his seat at the 1997 election. Nonetheless, he contested same seat at the election in 2001, and won it back. He was re-elected in 2005 with a 9000 vote majority.
Henry Bellingham was appointed as a Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry in July 2002, before becoming an Opposition Whip in May 2005. Since November 2006 he has been a Shadow Minister for the Department of Constitutional Affairs.

Business Interests

He is a Director of Longborough Capital of Witney, Environmental Polymer Technologies of Shaftesbury, and Arc Fund Management.

Personal life

He lives in his constituency, in the village of Burnham Market. He married Emma Whiteley in 1993, and they have a son.

Trivia

Henry Bellingham is a descendant of John Bellingham, the assassin of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in 1812. One of his opponents at the 1997 election was Roger Percival, a descendant of Perceval (Percival was a candidate of James Goldsmith's Referendum Party).

External links

★ Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Henry Bellingham MP

★ TheyWorkForYou.com - Henry Bellingham MP

★ Voting record at the Public Whip

★ BBC Politics page

Video clips

★ Post Office closures

★ Questioning Gerry Sutcliffe in the Commons in May 2006