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in 1958: 'It came from Tim Raison, who was a friend of mine and, like me, wanted to be a Conservative member of parliament ... He floated the idea past me and I thought it was terrific. He, I and two other journalists,
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in recognition of outstanding service to the cause of refugees. He co-founded and edited the social science magazine
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In 1956 Raison married violin teacher Veldes Julia, daughter of John Arthur Pepys Charrington, of Netherton,
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from 1970 until his retirement in 1992. He served as a junior Education and Science Minister (1973–1974).
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Raison served as a Home Office minister from 1979 to 1983, under then Home Secretary
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Burke's Landed Gentry 1965, 18th edition, vol. 1, ed. Peter Townsend, p. 133
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and Colin Jones, wrote an article which was the start of the idea'.
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in 1952, of that landed gentry family of Cherry Orchard,
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The Right Honourable

Minister for Overseas Development
Margaret Thatcher
Neil Marten
Chris Patten
Minister of State for Immigration
Margaret Thatcher
Brynmor John
David Waddington
Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Michael Heseltine
Aylesbury
Spencer Summers
David Lidington
Conservative
Conservative
politician
Maxwell Raison
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scholarship
independent schools
Dragon School
Oxford
Eton College
Christ Church, Oxford
journalist
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