Lawrie Quinn | |
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Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby | |
In office 1 May 1997 –11 April 2005 | |
Preceded by | Constituency Established |
Succeeded by | Robert Goodwill |
Personal details | |
Born | Carlisle,Cumberland | 25 December 1956
Nationality | British |
Political party | Labour |
Spouse(s) | Ann Christine Eames |
Alma mater | University of Hertfordshire |
Lawrence William Quinn (born 25 December 1956) is a British Labour Party politician,railway engineer and from 1997 to 2005 he was the Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby.
Quinn was born in Harraby,a suburb of Carlisle,then in Cumberland. He attended Pennine Way Primary School and North Cumbria Technology College (then known as Harraby Comprehensive School) Harraby Comprehensive School. In 1979,at Hatfield Polytechnic,he gained a BSc in civil engineering. [1]
Prior to his election to Parliament,he was a civil engineer with British Rail (1979–94) and Railtrack London North-East (1994-7),and a member of North Yorkshire County Council from 1989 to 1993.
From 1989 to 1993,Quinn was a Councillor on North Yorkshire County Council,serving on the Highways Committee,the Policy and Resources Committee and the Planning Committee. [1]
He was unexpectedly elected to Parliament in the 1997 General Election as Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby,as part of the Labour landslide election victory while he was not really expecting to win a normally Conservative seat which he retained in the 2001 General Election.
He sat for two terms until being ousted by Conservative candidate Robert Goodwill in the United Kingdom general election of 2005. Lawrie lost the seat by 1,245 votes. It has been suggested[ who? ] that votes for the local Liberal Democrat candidate,the Iraq war,and negative feeling towards Tony Blair (who visited Scarborough the day before polling day to consolidate support) resulted in the marginal loss.
Quinn is a member of the Fabian Society.
Since losing his seat he has returned to engineering,working as Tube Lines New Works Delivery Manager on secondment from Bechtel (2005 until 2007) then as the Rail Projects Delivery Manager for Bechtel based in London.
He married Ann Christine Eames in 1982.
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