John
Stanley was born in 1942. He won a Trevelyan Scholarship to Lincoln
College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. He later studied
at Syracuse University, USA. He is married with two children. In
1984 Sir John was made a Privy Counsellor, and in 1988 he was knighted.
Before
his election to Parliament he was a senior Financial Executive
with Rio Tinto Zinc. He was formerly a Research Associate of the
International Institute for Strategic Studies and has also been
a member of the Conservative Party`s Research Department with
responsibility for Housing.
While
at the Institute for Strategic Studies, he undertook a major study
of Western European defence industries and is the joint author
of “The International Trade in Arms” (1971). He has
had two pamphlets published by the Conservative Political Centre:
“American Troops in Europe an anachronism or a necessity?”
(1972); and a “Shared Purchase” (1974), which proposed
a scheme to facilitate home ownership.
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