Prior to the 2015 General Election the Father of the House was Sir Peter Tapsell, who currently holds the post?
Candidates in the 2015 United Kingdom general election Conservative candidate is Taylor Muir, 19, standing in Rutherglen and Hamilton West. The youngest candidate who became an MP in the election is Mhairi Black, 20, of the SNP, who became the youngest MP since 1667 (prior to the Acts of Union) after she defeated Labour's Douglas Alexander in the Paisley and Renfrewshire South constituency. The oldest candidate is Doris Osen, 84, of the Elderly Persons' Independent Party (EPIC), who is standing in Ilford North. Other oldest candidates standing in the election include two longtime Labour MPs standing for reelection: Sir Gerald Kaufman, 84, of Manchester Gorton, and Dennis Skinner,
Peter Tapsell (British politician) a son, James, who was born in 1966 and died in 1985. They divorced in 1971, and Cecilia married Tapsell's fellow Conservative politician Sir Nicholas Scott in 1979. Tapsell subsequently married Gabrielle Mahieu in 1974. Tapsell died on 18 August 2018, aged 88. Peter Tapsell (British politician) Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell (1 February 1930 – 18 August 2018) was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth and Horncastle. He served in the House of Commons continuously from 1966 until 2015 and was also previously an MP from 1959 to 1964. He was Father of