Gerry Malone

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British Conservative politician

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Field	Value
name	Gerry Malone
birth_name
office	Minister of State for Health
term_start	20 July 1994
term_end	May 1997
primeminister	John Major
predecessor	Brian Mawhinney
successor	Alan Milburn
office1	Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party
alongside1	Angela Rumbold
term_start1	May 1992
term_end1	July 1994
leader1	John Major
predecessor1	Angela Rumbold
successor1	Angela Rumbold
Michael Dobbs
John Maples
office2	Assistant Government Whip
term_start2	10 February 1986
term_end2	15 June 1987
primeminister2	Margaret Thatcher
office3	Member of Parliament
for Winchester
predecessor3	John Browne
successor3	Mark Oaten
term_start3	9 April 1992
term_end3	8 April 1997
office4	Member of Parliament
for Aberdeen South
predecessor4	Iain Sproat
successor4	Frank Doran
term_start4	9 June 1983
term_end4	18 May 1987
birth_date
birth_place	Glasgow, Scotland
death_date
education	St Aloysius' College, Glasgow
alma_mater	University of Glasgow
party	Conservative
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Early life

Born in Glasgow, Malone was educated at St Aloysius' College, Glasgow, and attended the University of Glasgow.

Early career

Glasgow candidacies

He was the Conservative candidate at the February 1974 general election for Glasgow Provan, where he was defeated by Labour's Hugh Brown. He made other unsuccessful attempts to be elected to the House of Commons at Glasgow Pollok at the October 1974 general election, Roxburgh, Peebles and Selkirk at the 1979 general election, and the Glasgow Hillhead by-election in 1982 (where he lost the traditionally Conservative seat to Roy Jenkins of the Social Democratic Party).

MP for Aberdeen South

He was elected as MP for Aberdeen South at the 1983 general election, in a landslide victory for the Conservative Party, but lost the seat to Frank Doran of Labour at the 1987 general election. During this time he served as an assistant Government whip, from 10 February 1986 to 15 June 1987.

Re-entering Parliament

MP for Winchester

He re-entered Parliament in 1992, representing the "safe" Conservative seat of Winchester.

In May 1992 Malone became a deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, joining incumbent Dame Angela Rumbold in the post. He left the post in July 1994 and was succeeded by Rumbold, Michael Dobbs and John Maples.

He was appointed a Minister of State at the Department of Health in 1994, when Virginia Bottomley was the secretary of state.

1997 contested seat of Winchester

Malone unexpectedly lost his Winchester seat at the 1997 general election by two votes, to the Liberal Democrat candidate Mark Oaten. Malone challenged the result in the high court, and it was declared void, causing a by-election. Malone trailed Oaten by 21,566 votes in the resulting by-election.

Commercial chairmanships

Malone was chairman of Regent-GM, a supplier of generic drugs to the National Health Service (NHS) and a subsidiary of Nadhmi Auchi's General Mediterranean Holding. The company was wound up in 2004 after being accused of colluding with five other pharmaceuticals companies to overcharge the NHS for drugs.

Malone served until September 2014 as a non-executive chairman of Ultrasis, which specialises in computerised cognitive behavioural therapy software.

He is currently chairman of a range of US mutual funds and serves on the board of the Washington-based Mutual Funds Directors Forum (MFDF); Malone is a director of two US healthcare companies, Bionik Labs and Medality Medical.

Writer and broadcaster

Malone was Scottish editor of The Sunday Times from 1987 to 1990 and a broadcaster on BBC Radio Scotland and Radio Clyde from 1987 to 1992. He is currently opera critic of Reaction.life, an online news, commentary and arts publication.

References

(1994). "British Political Facts, 1900–1994". Palgrave Macmillan.
[[David Butler (psephologist)
Macmillan]], 1996. {{ISBN
(1994). "British Political Facts, 1900–1994". Palgrave Macmillan.
(1994). "British Political Facts, 1900–1994". Palgrave Macmillan.
(20 August 2008). "Election petitions". BBC News.
"Gerry Malone: Electoral history and profile". The Guardian.
Bowers, Simon. (6 April 2006). "Five companies charged in NHS price fixing row". The Guardian.
"Directors". Ultrasis.

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