Alan Tyrrell

British lawyer and politician (1933–2014)

Alan Rupert Tyrrell, QC (27 June 1933 – 23 October 2014) was a British lawyer and Conservative Party politician.^[1]

Biography

Alan Tyrrell was born on 27 June 1933 in the Belgian Congo where his parents Trevor Tyrrell and Winifred Mackenzie were missionaries.^[2] He studied law at the London School of Economics and qualified as a barrister with the Gray's Inn Bar Association in 1956. He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1976, and appeared in a number of controversial cases.

Tyrrell was elected as Conservative member of the European Parliament for London East in 1979, but lost his seat in 1984,^[3] and was defeated again in 1989.

Tyrrell later became a deputy high court judge. He died on 23 October 2014, at the age of 81.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Alan Tyrrell – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
^ Taylor, Ursula Winifred; Aldrich, John (2022). "Winifred Mackenzie: Statistician, missionary, mother". Significance. 19 (5): 35–37. doi:10.1111/1740-9713.01689. S2CID 252533061.
^ Linton, Martin (18 June 1984). "Alliance trailing in third as Tories drop 14 seats". The Guardian. p. 1. Retrieved 27 December 2019 – via Newspapers.com.