Editing Michael Alison

{{Short description|British politician (1926–2004)}}
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| image               = Michael-James-Hugh-Alison.jpg
| office              = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[Selby (UK Parliament constituency)|Selby]]<br>{{nobold|([[Barkston Ash (UK Parliament constituency)|Barkston Ash]] 1964–1983)}}
| term_start          = 15 October 1964
| term_end            = 8 April 1997
| preceded1           = [[Leonard Ropner]]
| succeeded           = [[John Grogan (politician)|John Grogan]]
| birth_name          = Michael James Hugh Alison
| birth_date          = {{birth date|df=y|1926|06|27}}
| birth_place         = [[Margate|Margate, Kent]], England
| death_date          = {{death date and age|df=y|2004|05|28|1926|06|27}}
| death_place         = 
| nationality         = British
| party               = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|Sylvia Haigh|1958}}
| children            = 3 (including [[James Alison|James]])
| education           = [[Eton College]]
| alma_mater          = {{ubl|[[Wadham College, Oxford]]|[[Ridley Hall, Cambridge]]}}
| honorific_prefix    = [[The Right Honourable]]
}}

'''Michael James Hugh Alison''' (27 June 1926 – 28 May 2004)<ref name="rayment-b-ash1">{{Rayment-hc|b|1|date=March 2012}}</ref> was a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician.

Born in [[Margate]], [[Kent]],<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1463103/Michael-Alison.html |title = Michael Alison|date = 29 May 2004 |work=Telegraph |accessdate=3 December 2019}}</ref> Alison was educated at [[Eton College]]; [[Wadham College, Oxford]]; and [[Ridley Hall, Cambridge]]. During the war, he served in the Coldstream Guards. He was a councillor on [[Metropolitan Borough of Kensington|Kensington Borough Council]] from 1956 to 1959 and a research worker on foreign affairs at the [[Conservative Research Department]] from 1958 to 1964.

He served as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Barkston Ash (UK Parliament constituency)|Barkston Ash]] from the [[1964 United Kingdom general election|1964 general election]] until that constituency was abolished for the [[1983 United Kingdom general election|1983 general election]],<ref name="rayment-b-ash"/> and then for the constituency of [[Selby (UK Parliament constituency)|Selby]] which replaced it, from 1983 until he stood down at the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 general election]].<ref name="rayment-b-ash">{{Rayment-hc|2|1|date=March 2012}}</ref>

He held various junior ministerial posts under [[Margaret Thatcher]], including serving as her [[Parliamentary Private Secretary]] (1983–87) and as a [[Minister of State]] (Northern Ireland Office 1979–81, Department of Employment 1981–83). For ten years from 1987 he was the [[Church Commissioners|Second Church Estates Commissioner]].<ref>{{Who's Who | title=Alison, Rt Hon. Michael James Hugh | id = U5245 | type = was | volume = 1926–2004 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 3 December 2019 }}</ref>

==Family==
In 1958 he married Sylvia Haigh, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. His son, [[James Alison|James]], is a noted Christian [[theologian]] and advocate of the acceptance of LGBTIQA+ people in the Church.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Alison|first1=James|title={{title case|Faith beyond resentment: fragments Catholic and gay}}|date=2001|publisher=Crossroad|location=New York|isbn=0824519221|page=[https://archive.org/details/faithbeyondresen00alis/page/194 194]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/faithbeyondresen00alis/page/194}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-michael-alison | Michael Alison }}

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