John Gorst (Hendon North MP), Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJohn Gorst (Hendon North MP)
British Conservative party Member of Parliament
Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1928
Date of Death: 31-Jul-2010
Profession: politician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About John Gorst (Hendon North MP)
- Sir John Michael Gorst (28 June 1928 – 31 July 2010) was a British Conservative politician. He was educated at Ardingly College and read French and History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
- In 1953 he joined the advertising department of Pye Ltd.
- At the 1964 general election he fought Chester-le-Street and in 1966, he was again an unsuccessful candidate in the Bodmin constituency in Cornwall, losing to the sitting Liberal MP, Peter Bessell.
- At the 1970 general election, he was elected MP for Hendon North, holding the seat until it was abolished by boundary changes in 1997.
- In December 1996, he resigned the Conservative whip in protest at the closure of a casualty unit at a local hospital.
- This deprived John Major of his parliamentary majority.
- In the 1997 general election, he stood in the new seat of Hendon, losing to Labour's Andrew Dismore.
- He was the great-grandson of Sir John Eldon Gorst.
- Gorst married Noël Rossana, a ballerina, in 1954.
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