Rupert Speir

Rupert Speir
Member of Parliament for Hexham
In office 25 October 1951 – 10 March 1966
Preceded by	Douglas Clifton Brown
Succeeded by	Geoffrey Rippon
Personal details
Born	(1910-10-10)10 October 1910 East Saltoun, Scotland
Died	October 16, 1998(1998-10-16) (aged 88)
Political party	Conservative

Sir Rupert Malise Speir (10 September 1910 – 16 September 1998) was a British Conservative Party politician.

He was born at East Saltoun in East Lothian, Scotland, and educated at Eton College and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association. He became a solicitor, and in 1939 he joined the army, where he served in the Intelligence Corps throughout the Second World War.

At the 1945 general election, he stood unsuccessfully as the Conservative candidate in the safe Labour seat of Linlithgowshire in Scotland, winning 36% of the votes. He was unsuccessful again at the 1950 general election.

At the 1951 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hexham, and held the seat until he retired at the 1966 general election.

Three private members bills sponsored by Speir were passed into law: the Litter Act 1958, the Noise Abatement Act 1960 and the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1963.

References

• Obituary, The Independent, 24 September 1998 by Patrick Cosgrave

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Rupert Speir