Paul Dean, Baron Dean of Harptree

The Right Honourable
The Lord Dean of Harptree
PC
First Deputy Chairmen of Ways and Means
In office
11 June 1987 – 6 May 1992
Speaker Bernard Weatherill
Betty Boothroyd
Preceded by Ernest Armstrong
Succeeded by Geoffrey Lofthouse
Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
In office
28 May 1982 – 11 June 1987
Speaker George Thomas
Bernard Weatherill
Preceded by Ernest Armstrong
Succeeded by Betty Boothroyd
Member of Parliament
for Woodspring
North Somerset (1964 - 1983)
In office
15 October 1964 – 9 April 1992
Preceded by Edwin Leather
Succeeded by Liam Fox
Personal details
Born (1924-09-14)14 September 1924
Northwich, Cheshire, England[1]
Died 1 April 2009(2009-04-01) (aged 84)
Banwell, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England
Political party Conservative
Alma mater Exeter College, Oxford

Arthur Paul Dean, Baron Dean of Harptree, PC (14 September 1924 – 1 April 2009) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Early life and Second World War

Paul Dean was born in Northwich, Cheshire, England, on 14 September 1924, and was educated at Ellesmere College and Exeter College, Oxford. He served with the Welsh Guards during the Second World War, being commissioned in that regiment on 28 January 1944, with the service number of 307877.[1] He fought with the regiment's 2nd Battalion, part of the Guards Armoured Division under Major General Allan Adair, in the Battle of Normandy where he was wounded. Shortly after the end of World War II in Europe Dean served in Germany with the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) as aide-de-camp (ADC) to the General Officer Commanding (GOC) I Corps, initially Lieutenant-General Sir John Crocker and then Lieutenant-General Sidney Kirkman before Lieutenant-General Ivor Thomas took over from September 1945. Dean retired from the army in 1949.[1]

Political career

In 1962 Dean was the Conservative candidate in a by-election for the very safe Labour seat of Pontefract; he was defeated by Joseph Harper.

He was Member of Parliament for North Somerset from 1964 to 1983, and after boundary changes, for Woodspring from 1983 until his retirement in 1992, preceding Liam Fox. Dean was a junior minister for Health and Social Security during the 1970-1974 Conservative government. From 1982 until his retirement, he was a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons firstly under George Thomas and then Bernard Weatherill. He was knighted in the 1985 New Year Honours. When in the chair of the Commons on 21 June 1990, Dean was required to use his casting vote.[2]

House of Lords

In 1993 he was made a life peer as Baron Dean of Harptree, of Wedmore in the County of Somerset.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "British Army officer histories". Unit Histories. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  2. ↑ https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm198990/cmhansrd/1990-06-21/Debate-30.html |chapter-url= missing title (help). Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons. 21 June 1990. col. 1220–1221.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Edwin Leather		 Member of Parliament for North Somerset
1964 – 1983		 Constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament for Woodspring
1983 – 1992		 Succeeded by
Liam Fox
Preceded by
Ernest Armstrong		 Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
28 May 1982 – 6 May 1992		 Succeeded by
Betty Boothroyd
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