Peter Jackson MP

Peter Michael Jackson was born in October 1928. After attending the Universities of Liverpool and Leicester, he became a lecturer in sociology at the University of Hull, 1964-66. He was then elected Labour MP for the High Peak Division of Derbyshire. He was defeated in 1970, and again in February 1974. He was a fellow of Hull University, 1970-72 and a tutor for the Open University, 1972-74. He became Senior Planning Officer for South Yorkshire County Council in 1974 and unsuccessfully contested the Birmingham North constituency in the European parliamentary election in 1979.

From the guide to the Papers pf Peter Jackson MP, 1966-1970, (Hull University Archives)