Guy Barnett

Nicolas Guy Barnett (23 August 1928 – 24 December 1986) was a British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dorset from a by-election victory in 1962 until he was unseated in 1964, and later for Greenwich from a 1971 by-election until his death.

Background Barnett was born in Dulwich in 1928. He was educated at Highgate School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read politics, philosophy and economics. after the sitting Conservative MP Victor Montagu succeeded to the peerage as the Earl of Sandwich. Barnett only held the seat briefly as he was defeated at the 1964 general election.

Parliamentary offices Guy Barnett was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, under Peter Shore, from 1976 to 1979 (when Labour lost that year's general election) and Joint Secretary of the Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development from 1984 to 1986.

Personal life and death In 1967, he married Daphne Anne Hortin. They had two children, a son and a daughter.