David Bevan (politician)

David Bevan
Member of Parliament
for Birmingham Yardley
In office
3 May 1979 – 16 March 1992
Preceded bySyd Tierney
Succeeded byEstelle Morris
Personal details
Born10 April 1928
Died12 October 1996(1996-10-12) (aged 68)
Sutton Coldfield
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
SpouseCynthia Bevan
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford
Professionestate agent

Andrew David Gilroy Bevan (10 April 1928 – 12 October 1996) was a British Conservative politician.

Bevan served on Birmingham City Council and later the West Midlands County Council from 1959 to 1981.[1] He was Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley from 1979 until he lost the seat by 162 votes to future Labour minister Estelle Morris (now Baroness Morris of Yardley) in 1992.

He was Chairman of the Parliamentary All-Party Tourism Committee and Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Backbench Tourism Committee for several successive parliaments until he lost his seat in 1992, and did much to promote the British tourism industry.

Sources

  1. ^ Patrick Cosgrave, Obituaries: David Gilroy Bevan, published in The Independent, 18 October 1996
  • The Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1992
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley
1979–1992 		Succeeded by


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