Elected as a Conservative MP in 1959, he was the original sponsor of a bill to decriminalise homosexuality in the House of Commons in 1966.
He lost his seat in the 1966 election. In 1970, he joined the Labour Party and stood unsuccessfully as a Labour candidate in 1974 before joining the SDP in 1981 and fighting Southend East for them in 1987. In 1988, he rejoined Labour.
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The Berkeley Night (http://www.theberkeleynight.com/thename/)
The Life and Death of Rochester Sneath by Humphry Berkeley (http://www.harriman-house.com/pages/book.htm?BookCode=0087)
This discovery further led Davy to decompose certain substances, and, in the process was to discover metals not commonly found in their pure state, such metals as: potassium, sodium, barium, strontium, etc. In 1812, Davy was knighted.
In 1815, Sir Humphry invented the safety lamp, his most famous invention, which undoubtedly has saved numerous lives of those who worked in the coal mines.
During the war years he was to join Oppenheimer's theoretical study group at Berkeley, California.
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