Jeremy Bray
Jeremy William Bray was a British Labour politician and a Member of Parliament for 31 years.
Bray attended Kingswood School, Bath and Jesus College, Cambridge and was a Choate Fellow at Harvard University. He also worked as a research officer at the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge, working with future Nobel Laureates Professor Sir Richard Stone and Terry Barker on the Cambridge Growth Project.
Bray contested Thirsk and Malton for Labour in 1959. He was first elected MP for Middlesbrough West in a 1962 by-election, serving there until he was defeated in the 1970 general election. He was then MP for Motherwell and Wishaw from October 1974 to 1983, and for Motherwell South from 1983 until his retirement in 1997.
