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Geoffrey Rippon

(Aubrey) Geoffrey Frederick Rippon, Baron Rippon of Hexham, PC, (May 28, 1924-) was a British Conservative politician.

Educated at King's School, Taunton, and Brasenose College, Oxford where he was president of the Conservative Association, he was called to the Bar in 1948. After unsuccessfully contesting the seat of Shoreditch and Finsbury in both 1950 and 1951, he became MP for Norwich South in 1955. In 1964 he switched to the constituency of Hexham in Northumberland and remained MP there until retiring in 1987.

In 1970 he became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under Edward Heath and was given the responsibility of negotiating Britain's entry into the European Union. In 1972 he moved to become Secretary of State for the Environment.

He was created a life peer in 1987, as Baron Rippon of Hexham, of Hesleyside in Northumberland.


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Peter Walker | width="40%" style="text-align: center;" |Secretary of State for the Environment
1972–1974 | width="30%" |Succeeded by:
Anthony Crosland

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