Christopher Hawkins (MP for High Peak)

Christopher James Hawkins (born 26 November 1937) was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for High Peak constituency in Derbyshire from 1983 until he stood down in 1992.

Hawkins was born in Saffron Walden and educated at Bristol Grammar School and the University of Bristol from which he graduated with a BA (Hons) in Economics. From 1959 to -66 he worked as an economist for Courtaulds with periods of secondment in Nigeria and Tunisia. Hawkins then joined the Economics Department of the University of Southampton where he was successively Lecturer and Senior Lecturer. After leaving Parliament he was the Deputy Chairman of the Black Country Development Corporation until 1998.

Some publications of C. J. Hawkins

On the Sales Revenue Maximization Hypothesis, The Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Apr., 1970), pp. 129-140.

(edited with George McKenzie)The British economy : what will our children think? London : Macmillan 1982.

(with C. B. Chapman, and S. C. Ward) Pricing Policy Models: A Case Study in Practical O.R., The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 35, No. 7 (Jul., 1984),pp. 597-603.

References

• Times Guide to the House of Commons 1987
• Who's Who 2015
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Christopher Hawkins