Terence George Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham QC

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 (21 March 1930 – 23 July 2011) was a British

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 Labour Party

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 politician. He was educated at King's College London

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 where he took an LLB in law in 1954, and was called to the bar at Inner Temple

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 in 1960.

He was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Faversham

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 at a by-election

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 on 14 May 1964, following the death of the Labour MP Percy Wells

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. He was re-elected at the general election in October 1964

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 and again in 1966

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, but was defeated at the 1970 general election

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 by the Conservative

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 Roger Moate

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.

In the 1976 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours

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, Boston was given a life peerage as Baron Boston of Faversham, of Faversham in the County of Kent

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. He served as a deputy speaker of the House of Lords

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 1991-2008 and twice served as Chairman of Committees

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, 1994–1997 and 1997-2000.

Lord Boston was a Patron of the African Prisons Project, an international non-governmental organisation with a mission to bring dignity and hope to men women and children in African prisons through health, education, justice and reintegration.

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