Fabian Hamilton
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Fabian Uziell-Hamilton known as Fabian Hamilton (born April 12, 1955) United Kingdom politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Leeds North East.
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[edit] Education and professional career
Fabian Hamilton was born in London, the son of a solicitor father and a judge mother. He was educated at Brentwood School in Essex and the University of York where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree. He worked initially as a taxi driver for a year from 1978 before working as a graphic designer until 1994 when he was appointed as a computer systems consultant with Apple Macintosh Computers, where he remained until his election to parliament.
[edit] Political career
He was elected as a councillor to the City of Leeds Council in 1987, stepping down eleven years later in 1998. He was elected as the chairman of the Leeds West Constituency Labour Party in 1987, and he contested Leeds North East at the 1992 General Election but was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Timothy Kirkhope by 4,244 votes. He was very nearly not the candidate for the 1997 General Election: Liz Davies, a councillor in the London Borough of Islington, had been selected to contest Leeds North East, but she was vetoed by the National Executive Committee, allegedly for her left-wing politics; unhappy with the situation, opponents took out an unsuccessful private prosecution against Hamilton under the Companies Act in connection with his printing business.
He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election when he defeated Kirkhope in a re-run at Leeds North East by 6,959 votes and has remained the MP there since. He made his maiden speech on June 23, 1997, in which he explained that his constituency stretches from the inner-city Leeds district of Chapeltown all the way out to Harewood House, the stately home of the Earls of Harewood.[1]
[edit] Parliamentary offices
In parliament he served as a member of the administration select committee 1997-2001, and has been a member of the foreign affairs select committee since the 2001 General Election. He is also the chairman of the all party groups on business services, prison health, and civil contingency, he also serves as the vice chairman of the all party Iran group.
[edit] Personal life
He has been married to Rosemary Ratcliffe since 1980 and they have a son and two daughters. He has been a member of Amicus since it absorbed his former union, the Graphical, Paper and Media Union. He is Jewish and speaks fluent French.
