Sir Rhodes Boyson (11 May 1925 – 28 August 2012) was a British educator, author and politician and Conservative Member of Parliament for Brent North. He was knighted and made a member of the Privy Council in 1987.
It is wrong biblically, is homosexuality. It is unnatural. AIDS is part of the fruits of the permissive society. The regular one-man, one-woman marriage would not put us at risk in this way. If we could wipe out homosexual practices, then Aids would die out.
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His trademark mutton-chop whiskers date from an occasion when he rebuked pupils for having long hair at the school where he was headmaster. The students retorted jokingly "why don't you grow your hair, Sir, if we cut ours".
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Sir Rhodes electoral defeat in the Brent North 1997 election is generally attributed to the closing down of parts of Edgware General Hospital by the Conservative Government of the day. Ironically, he was opposed to the measure.
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Known as Tory right-winger, Sir Rhodes was in favor of the death penalty, privatisations, lower taxes and corporal punishment, but he was opposed to the infamous Margaret Thatcher's "Poll Tax".
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In 2007 he received an honorary degree from the University of Buckingham. Sir Rhodes was the Minister who facilitated the institution's Royal Charter in the face of the opposition of his own civil servants in the Department of Education.
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Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Department of Education and Science (1979-1983); Minister of State for Social Security (1983-1984); Minister of State for Northern Ireland (1984-1986); Minister of State for the Environment (1986-1987).
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Was knighted and sworn of the Privy Council in 1987.
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Conservative Member of Parliament for Brent North (1974 - 1997).
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Worked as head teacher at the Highbury Grove School in Islington, North London.
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