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Humphry Berkeley
Humphry John Berkeley (February 21, 1926 - November 14, 1994) was a British Politician.
He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge and was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1948.
Elected as a Conservative MP in 1959, he was the original sponsor of a bill to decriminalise homosexuality in the House of Commons in 1966.
He lost his seat in the 1966 election. In 1970, he joined the Labour Party and stood unsuccessfully as a Labour candidate in 1974 before joining the SDP in 1981 and fighting Southend East for them in 1987. In 1988, he rejoined Labour.
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