Michael Alison

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Michael James Hugh Alison (June 27, 1926 - May 28, 2004) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Alison was educated at Eton College, Wadham College, Oxford and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He was a councillor on Kensington Borough Council 1956-59 and a research worker on foreign affairs at the Conservative Research Department 1958-64.

He was member of Parliament for Barkston Ash (to 1983) and then for Selby, both in Yorkshire, from 1964 to 1997, when he stood down. He held various junior ministerial posts under Margaret Thatcher, including serving as her Parliamentary Private Secretary and as a Minister of State. For ten years from 1987 he was Second Church Estates Commissioner.

Michael Alison's son, James Alison, is a noted theologian.Template:England-bio-stub Template:UK-MP-stub