James Scott-Hopkins

{{short description|British politician}} {{more footnotes needed|date=December 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Use British English|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sir James Scott-Hopkins | image = Sir-James-Sidney-Rawden-Scott-Hopkins.jpg | office = Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament | term_start = 7 July 1979 | term_end = 9 February 1982 | predecessor = Geoffrey Rippon | successor = Henry Plumb | office1 = Member of the European Parliament<br>for Hereford and Worcester | term_start1 = 7 June 1979 | term_end1 = 9 June 1994 | predecessor1 = ''Position established'' | successor1 = ''Position abolished'' | office2 = Member of Parliament<br>for West Derbyshire | term_start2 = 23 November 1967 | term_end2 = 7 April 1979 | predecessor2 = Aidan Crawley | successor2 = Matthew Parris | office3 = Member of Parliament<br>for North Cornwall | term_start3 = 8 October 1959 | term_end3 = 10 March 1966 | predecessor3 = Sir Harold Roper | successor3 = John Pardoe | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|11|29|df=y}} | birth_place = Croydon, Surrey, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1995|3|11|1921|11|29|df=y}} | death_place = Westminster, London, England | education = Eton College | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|New College, Oxford|Emmanuel College, Cambridge}} | party = Conservative | spouse = {{marriage|Geraldine Hargreaves|1946}} | children = 4 | allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}} | branch = {{army|United Kingdom}} | battles = World War II | service_years = 1939–1950 }} '''Sir James Sidney Rawdon Scott-Hopkins''' (29 November 1921 – 11 March 1995) was a British Conservative politician.

Born in Croydon, Scott-Hopkins was educated at Eton College, New College, Oxford and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He joined the British Army in 1939. He was commissioned in the 3rd QAO Gurkha Rifles in 1942 and served on the North-West Frontier, commanding C Company of the 4th Battalion, and in Burma until 1946, having taken a regular commission in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1944. He retired from the Army in 1950 and became a farmer.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://parltrack.org/mep/1393/Sir%20James%20SCOTT-HOPKINS |title=Sir James Scott-Hopkins |publisher=ParlTrack}}</ref> He married Geraldine Hargreaves in Eton in 1946 (three sons, one daughter); she died in 2023.<ref>{{cite newspaper The Times |issue=74268 |date=1 December 2023 |title=Scott-Hopkins |page=61 |department=Register |column=6}}</ref>

Scott-Hopkins contested Bedwellty in 1955. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Cornwall from 1959 until he lost the seat to the Liberal John Pardoe in 1966. He had served as joint Parliamentary Secretary at MAFF 1962–64. He was re-elected as MP for West Derbyshire at a 1967 by-election, and served until 1979.

His successor was Matthew Parris. He had served, concurrently (to 1979), as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1979, when he was elected for the Hereford and Worcester European constituency, serving until 1994. He was knighted in the 1981 New Year Honours "for political and public service."<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=48467 |supp=y |date=30 December 1980 |page=2}}</ref> He died in Westminster, aged 73.

==References== * ''Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974'' * {{Rayment-hc|date=March 2012}} {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Portal|Cornwall}} * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-james-scott-hopkins | James Scott-Hopkins }}

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