Christopher Gill
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Christopher John Frederick Gill (born October 28, 1936) was a politician in the United Kingdom.
Gill was born in Wolverhampton where he was a local councillor and was educated locally at Birchfield Preparatory School and then Shrewsbury School. His national service was in the Royal Navy, serving aboard HMS Modeste and HMS Birmingham. He is a director of his family's sausage making business called F.A. Gills Ltd.
Gill served as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Ludlow from 1987 to 2001, when he stepped down. He has been chairman of the Freedom Association for the last five years.
In 2006, Gill announced that he had joined the United Kingdom Independence Party, having endorsed the Party's policies at the European Parliament election, 2004 and resigned his membership of the Conservatives shortly afterwards.
Gill's autobiography is entitled A Whip's Nightmare.
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| Preceded by: Eric Cockeram |
Member of Parliament for Ludlow 1987–2001 |
Succeeded by: Matthew Green |
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