Neville Trotter

Sir Neville Guthrie Trotter , FCIT (27 January 1932 – 25 June 2026) was a British Conservative politician. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and King's College, Durham (BCom).

Prior to becoming an MP, Trotter served as a Conservative councillor for Dene ward in Newcastle upon Tyne, which covered the northern areas of Heaton, parts of Benton and the well-known Freeman Hospital. Trotter was a member of Newcastle City Council from 1963 to 1974, and Tyne and Wear County Council from 1973 to 1974. In 1973, he was a Justice of the Peace in Newcastle.

Although his majorities were not huge, he successfully held on to Tynemouth, never being defeated at the polls. In 1992, the year after the Meadow Well Riots in the constituency, his majority was just under six hundred votes. After his retirement, Tynemouth was won by Labour's Alan Campbell. He is the most recent Conservative MP representing a constituency in Tyne and Wear.

Outside parliament Trotter was a consultant at Thornton Baker from 1974 to 1983, and at Grant Thornton, Chartered Accountants from 1983 to 2005. , the same year he became a deputy lieutenant. He became a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1998. Trotter was also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and the Chartered Institute of Transport. He was made a Freeman of the City of London in 1978.