{{Short description|British politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Gary Waller | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|Cllr}} | image = Gary Waller Epping Forest.jpg | caption = | constituency_MP = Keighley | parliament = | majority = | predecessor = Bob Cryer | successor = Ann Cryer | term_start = 9 June 1983 | term_end =8 April 1997 | constituency_MP1 = Brighouse and Spenborough | parliament1 = | majority1 = | predecessor1 = George Jackson | successor1 = Constituency abolished | term_start1 = 3 May 1979 | term_end1 = 13 May 1983 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1945|06|24|df=y}} | birth_place = Bradford, West Yorkshire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|07|21|1945|06|24|df=yes}} | death_place = | spouse = | party = Conservative | alma_mater = Lancaster University | occupation = Politician | birth_name = Gary Peter Anthony Wallerstein | website = {{URL |1=https://rds.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=1235}} }}
'''Gary Peter Anthony Waller''' (24 June 1945 – 21 July 2017<ref name="auto">{{cite web | url=http://www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/news/?p=33431 |title = News|website=www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk}}</ref>) was a British Conservative politician.
==Schooling== Waller was educated at Rugby School, where he excelled at cross country running, and graduated from Lancaster University in 1967.
==Political career==
===Election=== Waller was the Conservative candidate for the Labour safe seat of Rother Valley in the February and October 1974 elections, but Peter Hardy retained the seat on both occasions. Waller was originally elected as the MP for Brighouse and Spenborough, taking the seat from Labour, at the 1979 general election, until 1983, when boundary changes meant the constituency was abolished. Instead, he was elected for nearby Keighley, defeating the Labour incumbent Bob Cryer.
During his time in Parliament, Waller served as Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pictfor.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/pitcom25web1.pdf |title=Layout 1 |date= |accessdate=2021-06-12}}</ref> From 1992 to 1997, he served as Chairman of the House of Commons Information Committee,<ref>{{Cite book |title=Waller, Gary Peter Anthony |date=1 December 2017 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u38704 }}</ref> which oversaw the work of the House of Commons Library and parliamentary IT.
At the 1997 general election, he lost his Keighley seat to Labour's Ann Cryer, widow of Bob Cryer.
===1994 revelation=== In January 1994, ''The People'' newspaper published claims Waller was the father of an illegitimate son. The newspaper claimed he was the biological father of the son of Fay Stockwell, who was Sir Marcus Fox's secretary. Waller later admitted the claims were true.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/tories-in-turmoil-the-press-waller-attacks-harassment-after-admitting-he-has-son-1400518.html |title = TORIES IN TURMOIL / The Press: Waller attacks 'harassment' after|date = 17 January 1994}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/sleaze-the-list-1592762.html | title=SLEAZE: The list| date=23 July 1995}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/two-months-of-sex-and-sleaze-1392667.html |title = Two months of sex and sleaze|date = 8 February 1994}}</ref>
===Local Government=== Waller was elected a District Councillor on 5 May 2011 to represent the Lower Sheering Ward on Epping Forest District Council. He was the cabinet member for the Safer, Greener and Transport portfolio and a member of many committees and panels, including the Essex Police and Crime Panel.<ref name="auto"/> He was President of Harlow Conservative Association,<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.harlow-conservatives.co.uk/association-management-team|title = Association Management Team|date = 15 July 2016|access-date = 24 July 2017|archive-date = 8 August 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170808193612/http://www.harlow-conservatives.co.uk/association-management-team|url-status = dead}}</ref> and lived near his ward. He also served on Hatfield Broad Oak parish council.
==References== {{reflist}}
==Sources== * "Times Guide to the House of Commons", Times Newspapers Limited, 1983 and 1997 editions.
== External links == * [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/tories-in-turmoil--the-press-waller-attacks-harassment-after-admitting-he-has-son-1400518.html TORIES IN TURMOIL / The Press: Waller attacks 'harassment' after] * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-gary-waller | Gary Waller }}
{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{s-bef | before = Colin Jackson }} {{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Brighouse & Spenborough | years = 1979–1983 }} {{s-non | reason = constituency abolished }} {{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Keighley | years = 1983–1997 | before = Bob Cryer | after = Ann Cryer }} {{s-end}}
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