Everything about Peter Viggers totally explained
Peter John Viggers (born
March 13,
1938,
Gosport) is a lawyer and
Conservative Party politician in the
United Kingdom.
Early life
He is the son of John Sidney Viggers. He went to
Alverstoke School
and
Portsmouth Grammar School. He studied at
Trinity Hall College at the
University of Cambridge, receiving an
MA in History and Law in 1961. He qualified from the
College of Law in
Guildford in 1967. He became a solicitor in 1967. From 1970-9, he was the Chair and Director of banking, oil, hotels, textiles,
pharmaceuticals, and
venture capital companies.
Political career
He is
member of Parliament for
Gosport, his home town and lives just a few miles from where he was born. He was first elected in February
1974 and has been Gosport's MP ever since. He served as the Industry Minister for Northern Ireland under
Margaret Thatcher from 1986-9. He left government in
1989, and has remained on the back-benches since.
He was the Chair of
Calgary-based Tracer Petroleum Corporation from 1996-8, and also of Lloyd's Pension Fund since 1996. He was a Director of
Jakarta-based
Emerald Energy plc from April 1998-2003.
In
2002, he made headlines by suggesting the
European Union adopt a 'single European language' to cut down in translation costs.
Personal life
He is a vice-patron of the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution. He is also an honorary treasury of the
America All Party Parliamentary Group. For four years he was the Chairman of Governors at
St Vincent College. He married (medical) Dr Jennifer Mary McMillan in 1968, and they've two sons and one daughter.
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