Sir Robert Anthony Bevis Durant/Tony Durant was born on January 9, 1928, and died on February 22, 2016.
He was a British Conservative Party politician.
He was not successfully towards the running for Rother Valley at the 1970 General Election, being beaten by Labour’s Peter Hardy.
Tony was a Member of Parliament for Reading North from 1974 to 1983.
After Reading’s constituencies were reshuffled, he was the Member of Parliament for Reading West from 1983–97.
Following his time in the house of Commons, he acted as a Whip.
Durant was knighted on 14 February 1991, which was announced in the 1991 New Year Honours.
Minister Durant retired from politics at the 1997 UK General Election.
Sir Tony Durant passed away at 88 yr old.