David Martin (English politician)

David John Pattison Martin (born 5 February 1945) is a British Conservative politician.[citation needed] Martin served as a Teignbridge District councillor from 1979 to 1983.He served as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Portsmouth South from 1987 until 1997 general election, in 1990 serving as PPS to Defence Minister Rt Hon Alan Clark MP then from 1990 to 1994 PPS to Foreign Secretary Rt Hon Douglas Hurd.According to a source, he is married to Basia Dowmunt and has one son and three daughters,[1] among which is the fiction novel author, Cesca Major (née Martin).This article about a Conservative Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom representing an English constituency and born in the 1940s is a stub.
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