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Geoffrey Rippon

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(Politician)
Born1924-05-28
Penn, England
Died1997-01-28
Broomfield, England
NationalityUK
Alma materKing's College (Taunton),Brasenose College (Oxford)
PartyConservative

Aubrey Geoffrey Frederick Rippon, Baron Rippon of Hexham was a British Conservative Party politician. He is most known for drafting the European Communities Act 1972 which took the United Kingdom into the European Communities on 1 January 1973. He was Chairman of the European-Atlantic Group.

From 1979 to 1982, Rippon was President of the European Documentation and Information Centre (CEDI).

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