Sir Neville Guthrie Trotter (born 27 January 1932) is a retired British

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 Conservative

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  politician.

Trotter was elected as MP

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 for Tynemouth

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 at the February 1974 general election

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 until he retired at the 1997 election

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. Although his majorities were not huge, he successfully held on to Tynemouth, never being defeated at the polls. In 1992, the year after the Meadow Well Riots

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 in the constituency, his majority was only a few hundred votes. After his retirement, Tynemouth was won by Labour

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's Alan Campbell

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Alan Campbell is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Tynemouth since 1997. He served as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office from 2008 until 2010, when the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats came to power...

.

Trotter is recalled locally principally as a godsend for would-be satirists and vandals as a few strokes of the pen could reduce his name to "Evil Rotter".

In April 2004, Trotter was installed as High Sheriff of Tyne & Wear.

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