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John Bercow
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Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1963)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 91
Top works
- Tennis Maestros
- Third Report 2014
- Third Report 2015
- Speaker's Committee Second Report 2014
- Second Report 2015
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1932-02-08
Discography
- The John Towner Touch1957
- World on a String1957
- Rhythm in Motion1961
- How to Steal a Million1966
- Williams: Sinfonietta for Wind Ensemble / Penderecki: Pittsburgh Overture / Mayuzumi: Music with Sculpture1970
- Music for Cello and Piano1974
- Jaws: Original Motion Picture Score1975
- Music From John Williams' Classic Film Scores: Close Encounters of the Third Kind / Star Wars1978
- Pops in Space1980
- Pops on the March1980
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 156
- Total plays
- 258
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,647x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,720x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,356x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,339x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,859x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “You need to write out a thousand times, "I will behave myself at Prime Minister’s Questions".”
- “You are an incorrigible delinquent at times. Behave yourself, man!”
- “It’s a point so blindingly obvious that only an extraordinarily clever and sophisticated person could fail to grasp it.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Monarch
- Elizabeth II
- Prime minister
- Gordon Brown , David Cameron , Theresa May , Boris Johnson
- Preceded by
- Michael Martin
- Succeeded by
- Lindsay Hoyle
- Leader
- Michael Howard
- Vice chancellor
- Anthony Forster
- Born
- John Simon Bercow , ( 1963-01-19 ) 19 January 1963 (age 63) , Edgware , Middlesex , England
- Party
- None
- Other political affiliations
- Labour (2021–2022; suspended) Independent (2019–2021) Speaker (2009–2019) Conservative (1980–2009)
- Spouse
- Sally Illman ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2002 )
- Education
- Finchley Manorhill School
- Alma mater
- University of Essex ( BA )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.johnbercow.co.uk
- Image
- John Bercow Senate of Poland 01.JPG
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- John Bercow
- date of birth
- 1963-01-19
- name in native language
- John Bercow
- birth name
- John Simon Bercow
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Article
John Simon Bercow (/ˈbɜːrkoʊ/ ; born 19 January 1963) is a British former politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 2009 to 2019, and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham between 1997 and 2019. A member of the Conservative Party prior to becoming speaker, he was the first MP since Selwyn Lloyd in 1971 to be elected speaker without having been a deputy speaker. After resigning as speaker in 2019 and opting not to seek re-election as an MP in the 2019 general election, Bercow left Parliament. In 2021, he joined the Labour Party but was suspended in 2022.
Bercow was a councillor in the London Borough of Lambeth from 1986 to 1990 and unsuccessfully contested parliamentary seats in the 1987 and 1992 general elections, before being elected for Buckingham in 1997. Promoted to the Shadow cabinet in 2001, he held posts under Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard. In November 2002, Bercow resigned over a dispute concerning his support for the Adoption and Children Act 2002, but returned a year later, only to be dismissed from the Shadow cabinet in 2004. Having initially been strongly associated with the right-wing faction of his party, his views shifted; by 2007, there were rumours that he would defect to the Labour Party.