Michael Hamilton (politician)

Michael Aubrey Hamilton (5 July 1918 – 3 July 2000) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Hamilton was educated at Radley and University College, Oxford. He was a director of Royal Exchange Assurance and of Army & Navy Stores.

Hamilton was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Wellingborough in 1959, which he lost in 1964. He was then elected for Salisbury at a 1965 by-election, which he represented until he retired in 1983. He was an opposition whip from 1961 to 1964, a senior one from the second year (a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury). He died in Chichester, West Sussex two days before his 82nd birthday.

References

• Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966 and 1983
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Michael Hamilton