Peter Rost (UK politician)

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Peter Lewis Rost (born 19 September 1930) is a retired British Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1992, and was a prominent member of the Conservative Monday Club.

Rost was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and at Birmingham University. Before entering Parliament, he was a stockbroker, lecturer and financial journalist.

Rost unsuccessfully contested the safe Labour constituency of Sunderland North at the 1966 general election, and at the 1970 general election he was elected as MP for the previously Labour-held seat of South East Derbyshire. He held that seat until the constituency was abolished for the 1983 general election, when he was returned to the House of Commons for the new Erewash. He retired from Parliament at the 1992 election.

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• Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1987

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Trevor Park	Member of Parliament for South East Derbyshire 1970–1983	Succeeded by (constituency abolished)
Preceded by (new constituency)	Member of Parliament for Erewash 1983–1992	Succeeded by Angela Knight