Robin Maxwell-Hyslop
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Sir Robin John Maxwell-Hyslop (born 6 June 1931) is a retired British Conservative Party politician.
Maxwell-Hyslop was educated at Stowe School and Christ Church, Oxford. He worked in an aero engine firm.
He contested the Derby North constituency at the 1959. When the Tiverton MP Derick Heathcoat Amory was elevated to the peerage in 1960, Maxwell-Hyslop was elected as his successor in the resulting by-election, and retained the seat until he retired at the 1992 general election. His successor was Angela Browning. He is particularly remembered for an incident, recorded in Hansard (Commons, 18 October 1973), concerning a visit to the Knesset:
- 'After lunch, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee spoke with great intemperance about the Arabs. When he drew a breath, I was constrained to say, 'Dr. Hacohen, I am profoundly shocked that you should preach of other human beings in terms similar to those in which (Nazi) Julius Streicher spoke of the Jews. Have you learned nothing?' I shall remember his reply to my dying day. He smote the table with both hands and said, 'But they are not human beings, they are not people, they are Arabs.'
[edit] References
- The Times Guide to the House of Commons, Times Newspapers Ltd, 1966, 1987 & 1992
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
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| Preceded by: Derick Heathcoat Amory |
Member of Parliament for Tiverton 1960–1992 |
Succeeded by: Angela Browning |
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