Paul Dean, Baron Dean of Harptree

The Right Honourable The Lord Dean of Harptree PC
First Deputy Chairmen of Ways and Means
In office 11 June 1987 – 6 May 1992
Preceded by	Ernest Armstrong
Succeeded by	Geoffrey Lofthouse
Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
In office 28 May 1982 – 11 June 1987
Preceded by	Ernest Armstrong
Succeeded by	Betty Boothroyd
Member of Parliament for Woodspring North Somerset (1964 - 1983)
In office 15 October 1964 – 9 April 1992
Preceded by	Edwin Leather
Succeeded by	Liam Fox
Personal details
Born	14 September 1924
Died	1 April 2009 (aged 84)
Political party	Conservative
Alma mater	Exeter College, Oxford

Arthur Paul Dean, Baron Dean of Harptree, PC (14 September 1924 – 1 April 2009) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Early life

He was educated at Ellesmere College and Exeter College, Oxford.

Political career

In 1962 Dean was the Conservative candidate in a by-election for the very safe Labour seat of Pontefract; he was defeated by Joseph Harper.

He was Member of Parliament for North Somerset from 1964 to 1983, and after boundary changes, for Woodspring from 1983 until his retirement in 1992, preceding Liam Fox. Dean was a junior minister for Health and Social Security during the 1970-1974 Conservative government. From 1982 until his retirement, he was a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons firstly under George Thomas and then Bernard Weatherill. When in the chair of the Commons on 21 June 1990, Dean was required to use his casting vote.^[1]

House of Lords

In 1993 he was made a life peer as Baron Dean of Harptree, of Wedmore in the County of Somerset.

References

• Times Guide to the House of Commons 1987
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• Guardian obituary

1. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm198990/cmhansrd/1990-06-21/Debate-30.html |chapter-url= missing title (help). Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons. 21 June 1990. col. 1220–1221.