Sir Peter Derek Fry is a British

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 Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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  politician

Politician

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.

Born in High Wycombe

High Wycombe

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, Fry was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe

Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe

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, and Worcester College, Oxford

Worcester College, Oxford

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. He became an insurance broker and a director of the family retail clothing business. He served as a councillor on Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

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 County Council

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 from 1961.

Fry contested Nottingham North

Nottingham North (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in 1964 and Willesden East

Willesden East (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in 1966. He was elected a Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 at the 1969 Wellingborough

Wellingborough (UK Parliament constituency)

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 by-election. He represented the seat until 1997, when he lost to Labour

Labour Party (UK)

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's Paul Stinchcombe

Paul Stinchcombe

Paul David Stinchcombe is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.-Early life:He went to the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe. At Trinity College, Cambridge, he studied Law, gaining an MA. He went to Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, gaining a LLM...

 by a margin of 187 votes.

He is now the Chairman of the Bingo Association, Chairman of the Federation of European Bingo Associations

EUBINGO

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, and a trustee of the Responsibility in Gambling Trust.

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