John Gummer

The Right Honourable John Selwyn Gummer (born November 26, 1939) is a British politician, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Suffolk Coastal. He is also a regular columnist for the Catholic Herald.

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He joined the government in 1981 as a whip. He held various junior ministerial positions at the Department of Employment, and the Department for the Environment. He was made Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1989 and stayed until 1993 when he was made Secretary of State for the Environment.

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He is noted for the way he attempted to feed a beefburger to his four-year-old daughter Cordelia, at the height of the BSE panic in 1990, and for delaying a ban on beef offal in 1989.

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Along with Ann Widdecombe, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1993 in the wake of the decision to ordain women into the Anglican Church.

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He introduced the Climate Change EDM to Parliament along with Michael Meacher and Norman Baker.

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He is married with 4 children.

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1939: 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar)....

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