Sir Hugh Alexis Louis Rossi (born 21 June 1927) is a former British Conservative politician. Events 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce. Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom.
Rossi was educated at Finchley Catholic Grammar School - since 1971 Finchley Catholic High School - and King's College London and set up his own solicitor's practice in the West End, London. Finchley Catholic High School for Boys is in North Finchley, part of the London Borough of Barnet. King's College London is a British Higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the federal University of London. The West End of London is an area of Central London, England, containing many of the city's major tourist attractions businesses headquarters and the commercial He was elected a councillor on Hornsey Borough Council 1956-65, serving as deputy mayor 1964-65, and on the successor London Borough of Haringey from 1964. Hornsey is a district in London Borough of Haringey in north London in England The London Borough of Haringey (ˈhærɪŋgeɪ) is a Borough of North London, classified by some definitions as part of Inner London, and by He was also a Middlesex County Councillor 1961-65. Middlesex is one of the 39 historic counties of England and the second smallest by area.
Rossi was MP for Hornsey, 1966-1983, and for Hornsey and Wood Green, 1983-1992 after boundary changes. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Hornsey was a constituency in North London which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Hornsey and Wood Green is a parliamentary constituency in the London Borough of Haringey represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the A junior minister in the governments of Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, he was on the 'One Nation' wing of the party. Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 &ndash 17 July 2005 often known as Ted Heath, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Hilda Thatcher Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925 He retired in 1992 after which the Conservative Party lost the Hornsey and Wood Green seat when his Conservative successor Andrew Boff was defeated by Labour. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the He is presently a patron of the Association of Lawyers for the Defence of the Unborn.
His daughter, Marie-Louise Rossi, also has a political career, firstly as a Conservative, then a member of the breakaway Pro-Euro Conservative Party, then the Liberal Democrats. The Pro-Euro Conservative Party was a short-lived political party set up by John Stevens and Brendan Donnelly for the 1999 European Parliament Elections The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal Political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by merging the
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Member of Parliament for Hornsey 1966–1983 |
Succeeded by constituency abolished |
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Member of Parliament for Hornsey and Wood Green 1983–1992 |
Succeeded by Barbara Roche |