Alan Tyrrell

Alan Rupert Tyrrell, QC (27 June 1933 – 23 October 2014) was a British lawyer and Conservative Party politician.^[1]

Biography

Alan Tyrrell was born on 27 June 1933 in the Belgian Congo where his parents Trevor Tyrrell and Winifred Mackenzie were missionaries.^[2] He studied law at the London School of Economics and qualified as a barrister with the Gray's Inn Bar Association in 1956. He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1976, and appeared in a number of controversial cases.

Tyrrell was elected as Conservative member of the European Parliament for London East in 1979, but lost his seat in 1984,^[3] and was defeated again in 1989.

Tyrrell later became a deputy high court judge. He died on 23 October 2014, at the age of 81.^[1]