James Couchman


James Randall Couchman is a retired British Conservative politician.

Early life

He was educated at Cranleigh School and the University of Newcastle and was a London Borough of Bexley councillor from 1974 to 1982. He later served as a county councillor in Oxfordshire from 2005 until he retired in 2013.

Political career

Couchman first stood for Parliament at Chester-le-Street in 1979, but was beaten by Labour's Giles Radice.
He was Member of Parliament for Gillingham from 1983 until his defeat in 1997 by Labour's Paul Clark.