Dale Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours

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Dale Norman Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours (born 23 August 1943) is a British Labour Party politician. A Member of Parliament from 1979 to 2001, he now sits in the House of Lords.

He was educated at Keswick School and at The Sorbonne, Paris, and became Managing Director of a clock and metal component manufacturing company. He married Gudrun Kristin Runolfsdottir in 1970, and they had three sons including Dylan whose daughter was born 18 months after her father's death from Hodgkin's disease.

A councillor on Ramsbottom Urban District Council from 1972-1974, he contested Darwen at both the February 1974 and October 1974 general elections and then Workington in a 1976 by-election. He was elected Member of Parliament for Workington at the 1979 General Election. He represented Workington until his retirement from the House of Commons in 2001.

He was opposition spokesman for international development (1991-1992) and for food, agriculture and rural affairs (1992-1994), but then resigned from the front bench due to ill health. He was a member of various select committees, including: agriculture (1994-1996); standards and privileges (1995-2001); and the Intelligence and Security Committee (1995-2001).

He was raised to the peerage as Baron Campbell-Savours, of Allerdale in the County of Cumbria on 4 July 2001 and now sits in the House of Lords.

His political interests are listed as social work, education and health reform, and industrial democracy. He is Patron of the Cumbria Deaf Association, The Rural Academy Cumbria, and is President of both Allerdale Mind, and the Cumberland County League. He enjoys trout fishing and music in his spare time.