List of members of the European Parliament for the United Kingdom (1979–1984)

This is a list of the 81 members of the European Parliament for the United Kingdom in the 1979 to 1984 session.

Name National party EP Group Constituency Born DiedGordon Adam Labour Party SOCNorthumbria 1934Richard Balfe Labour Party SOCLondon South Inner 1944Neil Balfour Conservative Party EDYorkshire North 1944 Robert Battersby Conservative Party EDHumberside 1924 2002Peter Beazley Conservative Party EDBedfordshire South 1922 2004Lord Bethell Conservative Party EDLondon North West 1938 2007Roland Boyes Labour Party SOCDurham 1937 2006Beata Brookes Conservative Party EDWales North 1930 2015Janey Buchan Labour Party SOCGlasgow 1926 2012Richard Caborn Labour Party SOCSheffield 1943 Barbara Castle Labour Party SOCGreater Manchester North 1910 2002Frederick Catherwood Conservative Party EDCambridgeshire 1925 2014Ann Clwyd Labour Party SOCWales Mid & West 1937 2023Ken Collins Labour Party SOCStrathclyde East 1939 Richard Cottrell Conservative Party EDBristol 1943 2024David Curry Conservative Party EDEssex North East 1944 Ian Dalziel Conservative Party EDLothians 1947 John de Courcy Ling Conservative Party EDMidlands Central 1933 2005Basil de Ferranti Conservative Party EDHampshire West 1930 1988Marquess of Douro Conservative Party EDSurrey 1945 Baroness Elles Conservative Party EDThames Valley 1921 2009Derek Enright Labour Party SOCLeeds 1935 1995Winifred Ewing Scottish National Party EPDHighlands and Islands 1929 2023Adam Fergusson Conservative Party EDStrathclyde West 1932 Norvela Forster Conservative Party EDBirmingham South 1931 1993Eric Forth Conservative Party EDBirmingham North 1944 2006Michael Gallagher Labour Party / SDP (Jan 1984) SOCNottingham 1934 2015Win Griffiths Labour Party SOCWales South 1943 Lord Harmar-Nicholls Conservative Party EDGreater Manchester South 1912 2000David Harris Conservative Party EDCornwall & Plymouth 1937 Gloria Hooper Conservative Party EDLiverpool 1939 William Hopper Conservative Party EDGreater Manchester West 1929 Brian Hord Conservative Party EDLondon West 1934 2015Paul Howell Conservative Party EDNorfolk 1951 2008John Hume Social Democratic and Labour Party SOCNorthern Ireland 1937 2020Alasdair Hutton Conservative Party EDSouth of Scotland 1940 Christopher Jackson Conservative Party EDKent East 1935 2019Robert V. Jackson Conservative Party EDUpper Thames 1946 Stanley Johnson Conservative Party EDWight & Hampshire East 1940 Edward Kellett-Bowman Conservative Party EDLancashire East 1931 2022Elaine Kellett-Bowman Conservative Party EDCumbria 1923 2014Brian Key Labour Party SOCYorkshire South 1947 2016Alfred Lomas Labour Party SOCLondon North East 1928 2021John Marshall Conservative Party EDLondon North 1940 2025Thomas Megahy Labour Party SOCYorkshire South West 1929 2008James Moorhouse Conservative Party EDLondon South 1924 2014Robert Moreland Conservative Party EDStaffordshire East 1941 Bill Newton Dunn Conservative Party EDLincolnshire 1941 Sir David Nicolson Conservative Party EDLondon Central 1922 1996Tom Normanton Conservative Party EDCheshire East 1917 1997Lord O'Hagan Conservative Party EDDevon 1945 2025Ian Paisley Democratic Unionist Party NINorthern Ireland 1926 2014Ben Patterson Conservative Party EDKent West 1939 Andrew Pearce Conservative Party EDCheshire West 1937 Henry Plumb Conservative Party EDCotswolds 1925 2022Derek Prag Conservative Party EDHertfordshire 1923 2010Peter Price Conservative Party EDLancashire West 1942 Christopher Prout Conservative Party EDSalop and Stafford 1942 2009James Provan Conservative Party EDNorth East Scotland 1936 John Purvis Conservative Party EDMid Scotland and Fife 1938 2022Joyce Quin Labour Party SOCTyne South and Wear 1944 Brandon Rhys-Williams Conservative Party EDLondon South East 1927 1988Shelagh Roberts Conservative Party EDLondon South West 1924 1992Allan Rogers Labour Party SOCWales South East 1932 2023James Scott-Hopkins Conservative Party EDHereford & Worcester 1921 1995Barry Seal Labour Party SOCYorkshire West 1937 2025Madron Seligman Conservative Party EDSussex West 1918 2002Dr. Alexander Sherlock Conservative Party EDEssex South West 1922 1999Richard Simmonds Conservative Party EDMidlands West 1944 Anthony Simpson Conservative Party EDNorthamptonshire 1935 2022Tom Spencer Conservative Party EDDerbyshire 1948 2023James Spicer Conservative Party EDWessex 1925 2015Jack Stewart-Clark Conservative Party EDSussex East 1929 2026John Taylor Ulster Unionist Party EDNorthern Ireland 1937 John Taylor Conservative Party EDMidlands East 1941 2017Frederick Tuckman Conservative Party EDLeicester 1922 2017Amédée Turner Conservative Party EDSuffolk 1929 2021Alan Tyrrell Conservative Party EDLondon East 1933 2014Peter Vanneck Conservative Party EDCleveland 1922 1999Frederick Warner Conservative Party EDSomerset 1918 1995Michael Welsh Conservative Party EDLancashire Central 1942

By-election

1979 20 September: London, South West—The Home Secretary announced on 11 July 1979 that Shelagh Roberts was disqualified from election due to her membership of the Occupational Pensions Board, which was an 'office of profit under the Crown'. She resigned from the board and was re-elected at the by-election.

Change of allegiance

Michael Gallagher, elected as a Labour MEP, announced on 5 January 1984 that he had joined the Social Democratic Party.

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