Alex Lyon (politician)

Alex Lyon

Member of Parliament for York
In office 31 March 1966 – 13 May 1983
Preceded by	Charles Longbottom
Succeeded by	Conal Gregory

Personal details
Born	Alexander Ward Lyon (1931-10-15)15 October 1931
Died	30 September 1993(1993-09-30) (aged 61) Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England
Political party	Labour
Spouses	Hilda Arandall (m. 1951, divorced) Clare Short (m. 1981)

Alexander Ward Lyon (15 October 1931 – 30 September 1993) was a British Labour politician.

Early life

Lyon was educated at West Leeds High School and University College London. He became a barrister, called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1954. He was a member of the Bar Council and of the Fabian Society. He was also a Methodist local preacher and secretary of Leeds North West Constituency Labour Party.

Political career

Lyon was elected Member of Parliament for the marginal City of York in 1966, having first fought the seat in 1964. He was Minister of State at the Home Office, March 1974 – April 1976, but, as a radical, was sacked by Jim Callaghan.

In 1971 Lyon introduced the United Reformed Church Bill, which became the act which created the United Reformed Church from a union of Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches in England and Wales.

In a debate on 4 August 1980 he became the first MP to use the phrase "chuntering from a sedentary position", later used by many MPs, and a catchphrase of former Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow.^[1]

In 1981 he tried to amend a Finance Bill to allow those with a "conscientious objection to paying for expenditure on defence" to pay the military part of their taxes to the then Ministry of Overseas Development.

He was defeated in the 1983 General Election by the Conservative Conal Gregory.

Personal life

In 1981, Lyon married Clare Short, a civil servant who he had worked with whilst at the Home Office. Short herself later became a Labour MP and cabinet minister, winning Birmingham Ladywood for the first time on the same day Lyon lost his seat.

In 1993, Clare Short was called away from the Labour party conference to say her husband was very ill and likely to die. In her book An Honourable Deception, she described how "after losing his parliamentary seat, he moved from being a senior Labour MP to running my constituency office where he gave me enormous support as well as bringing great experience to the task. Later he decided to return to the Bar, but after a time got himself into various difficulties and I began to suspect that either he was suffering a deep depression or mental deterioration. The next few years were very difficult as he engaged in strange, inexplicable behaviour. He gradually fell out with family and friends and stayed home with our St Bernard called Fred and would deal with no one but Fred and me."^[2]

He died in Milton Keynes^[3] in 1993 from a rare hereditary neurological disease combined with Alzheimer's disease, aged 61. His son Adrian died from the same neurological disease in 2016.

He had two sons, Marcus and Adrian, and a daughter, Rebecca, from a previous marriage.

References

^ "Issue Out Of The Consolidated Fund For The Year Ending 31 March 1981". Hansard. 990. 4 August 1980 – via hansard.parliament.uk.
^ Short, Clare (2005). An honourable deception? : New Labour, Iraq, and the misuse of power. London: Free. ISBN 0-7432-6393-6. OCLC 58050529.
^ Deaths England and Wales 1984-2006

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Alex Lyon
Obituary in The Independent 1 October 1993

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Longbottom	Member of Parliament for York 1966–1983	Succeeded by Conal Gregory

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