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Oliver Heald MP
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I was elected as Member of Parliament for North Hertfordshire in 1992. For the 1997 General Election, the boundaries were changed and since then, I have been Member of Parliament for North East Hertfordshire. I have lived in the Constituency at Royston since 1981 and am married to Christine. We have three children: Sarah, William and Victoria.
I was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1954 and attended Reading School. After school, I went to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where I studied Law. I qualified as a barrister and practised in East Anglia from Chambers in Cambridge, starting in 1979. I undertook criminal cases for both prosecution and defence and later specialised in Employment Law and Family Law.
I have been an active Conservative since 1974 and in the late 1970s I was a Speaker with the Hyde Park Tories, when we were the only major political Party to have a presence at Speakers' Corner. In 1984 I became Chairman of the North Hertfordshire Conservative Association and later served on the Eastern Area Executive Council of the Conservatives.
