Editing Gerald Howarth (section)

{{Short description|British politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[Knight Bachelor|Sir]]
| name             = Gerald Howarth
| honorific-suffix = 
| image            = Gerald Howarth, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the MOD.jpg
| caption          = 
| office1          = [[Minister for International Security Strategy|Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Security Strategy]]
| term_start1      = 12 May 2010
| term_end1        = 4 September 2012
| predecessor1     = [[Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton|The Baroness Taylor of Bolton]]
| successor1       = [[Andrew Murrison]]
| primeminister1   = [[David Cameron]]
| office2          = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Aldershot (UK Parliament constituency)|Aldershot]]
| term_start2      = 1 May 1997
| term_end2        = 3 May 2017
| predecessor2     = [[Julian Critchley]]
| successor2       = [[Leo Docherty]]
| office3          = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Cannock and Burntwood (UK Parliament constituency)|Cannock and Burntwood]]
| parliament3      = 
| term_start3      = 9 June 1983
| term_end3        = 16 March 1992
| majority3        = 
| predecessor3     = [[Gwilym Roberts]]
| successor3       = [[Tony Wright (Cannock Chase MP)|Tony Wright]]
| birth_name       = James Gerald Douglas Howarth
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1947|09|12|df=yes}}
| birth_place      = 
| death_date       = 
| death_place      = 
| nationality      = British
| spouse           = Elizabeth Jane Squibb
| party            = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] 
| children         = 3
| residence        = 
| alma_mater       = [[University of Southampton]] 
| profession       = 
| signature        = 
| website          = {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130224030858/http://www.geraldhowarth.org/ www.geraldhowarth.org]}}
| footnotes        = 
}}
'''Sir James Gerald Douglas Howarth''' (born 12 September 1947) is a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] politician. He was the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Aldershot (UK Parliament constituency)|Aldershot]] from [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997]] until [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017]], having been the MP for [[Cannock and Burntwood (UK Parliament constituency)|Cannock and Burntwood]] from 1983 to 1992.

He was the [[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State]] at the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]] as Minister for International Security Strategy from May 2010 to September 2012 and is chairman of [[Conservative Way Forward]]. In 2016, he joined the political advisory board of [[Leave Means Leave]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leavemeansleave.eu/who-we-are/ |title=Co-Chairmen - Political Advisory Board - Supporters |publisher=Leave Means Leave |access-date=8 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171024153425/http://www.leavemeansleave.eu/who-we-are/ |archive-date=24 October 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He stood down at the [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017 general election]].<ref name="Lloyd2017">{{cite news|last=Lloyd|first=Stephen|url=http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/aldershot-mp-sir-gerald-howarth-12919596|title=Aldershot MP Sir Gerald Howarth will NOT seek re-election after 34 years in the Commons|work=Get Surrey|date=20 April 2017|access-date=20 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420175549/http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/aldershot-mp-sir-gerald-howarth-12919596|archive-date=20 April 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>