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Timothy Kirkhope MEP - Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament
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Born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1945 Timothy was educated privately at the Royal Grammar School in the City and subsequently at the Law Society's College of Law at Guildford Surrey.
After serving Articles with a Solicitor in Newcastle he qualified in 1973 and within a year had set up his own Practice acquiring the old Firm of Criddle and Criddle and amalgamating it under his own name. In 1977 in turn he amalgamated his fast expanding Firm with that of Wilkinson Marshall Clayton and Gibson a leading Commercial Practice where he remained as a full Partner for the next ten years.
Timothy had started taking an interest in Politics from an early age and joined the Young Conservatives (now called Conservative Future) in Jesmond in the North Newcastle Constituency at the age of 15. Over the next 7 years in the YC's he became a Branch Chairman, a Constituency Chairman, an Area Officer and was a member of the National YC committee. He met his wife Caroline in the YC's and they married in 1969.
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