John Heddle

Bentley John Heddle (15 September 1941 – 19 December 1989), known as John Heddle, was a British Conservative Party politician.

Heddle appearing on television discussion programme After Dark, March 1988 - more here

Political career

Heddle contested Gateshead West in February 1974, being beaten by Labour's John Horam. In October 1974 he stood in Bolton East, but was again defeated.

He was Member of Parliament for Lichfield and Tamworth from 1979 to 1983, and for Mid Staffordshire from 1983.

Death

Heddle died in 1989 at the age of 48. He committed suicide due to the indebtedness of his property businesses.[1] The subsequent by-election was won by Labour's Sylvia Heal.

gollark: > god bless australian mass surveillance and privacy invasionThe UK has that and we're not doing great! I think it's a population density thing.
gollark: It would be politically bad to close them because people would complain about "an entire lost generation" or something as if school is *that* important.EDIT: over here, I mean.
gollark: Mine and I think most of them here *are* still doing actual teaching, although with more computers than usual.
gollark: Hmm. Apparently the UK just went into lockdown again despite Boris saying he really didn't want to, except they're still keeping schools because of course.
gollark: > <@!258639553357676545> How many egregious privacy violations does the app have?I haven't actually checked.

References
  1. "House of Commons Hansard Debates for 17 December 1997". Retrieved 5 July 2009.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Bruce Grocott		 Member of Parliament for Lichfield & Tamworth
1979 – 1983		 Constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament for Mid Staffordshire
1983 – 1989		 Succeeded by
Sylvia Heal


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