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Candidate

  Austin Mitchell
Great Grimsby

Elected in 2001? Yes
Personal details
Married 1st, Patricia (divorced)
2 daughters
Married 2nd, Linda Mary McDougall
1 son, 1 daughter.

Education
Woodbottom Council School
Bingley Grammar School
Manchester University
Nuffield College, Oxford (BA, MA, DPhil).

Non-political career
Lecturer in history, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand 1959-63
Senior lecturer in politics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ 1963-67
Official fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford 1967-69
Journalist: Yorkshire Television 1969-71
BBC 1972
Yorkshire Television 1973-77
Political commentator, Sky Television's Target programme 1989-98
Associate editor, "The House Magazine".

Electoral history
Member for Grimsby 1977-83 and for Great Grimsby since June 1983

Political career
PPS to John Fraser as Minister of State for Prices and Consumer Protection 1977-79.

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