Michael Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead

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Michael Norman Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead (born 9 October 1920) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1960 to 1964 and from 1996 to 1992.

At the general election in October 1959, Shaw contested the Labour-held marginal constituency of Brighouse and Spenborough. He lost by only 47 votes to the sitting MP Lewis John Edwards, who died the following month.

At the resulting by-election in March 1960, he won the seat with a majority of 666 votes over Labour's Colin Jackson. However, Jackson regained the seat for Labour at the general election by a majority of 922.

Shw returned to Parliament at the 1966 general election, when he was elected for the safe Conservative constituency of Scarborough and Whitby. He held that seat until it was abolished for the February 1974 general election, when he was re-elected for the new Scarboroughconstituency. He continued to represent Scarbrorough until he retired at the 1992 general election, making a total of 30 years as an MP.

He also served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1974 until 1979, when MEPs were not directly elected, but were chosen by the House of Commons and House of Lords as delegates.

In 1994 some time after retiring from the House of Commons, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Shaw of Northstead, of Liversedge in the County of West Yorkshire.

[edit] References

• Times Guide to the House of Commons 1987,
• UK General Elections since 1832
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: Lewis John Edwards	Member of Parliament for Brighouse and Spenborough 1960–1964	Succeeded by: Colin Jackson
Preceded by: Sir Alexander Spearman	Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby 1966–1974	Succeeded by: (constituency abolished)
Preceded by: (new constituency)	Member of Parliament for Scarborough 1974–1992	Succeeded by: John Sykes