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Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, PC, FRSL ( ; 18 May 1929 – 2 March 2012) was a British politician, author, constitutional expert and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as the Leader of the House of Commons in the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1979 to 1981. He was a member of parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Chelmsford from 1964 to 1987, and was made a life peer in 1987. His surname was created by compounding those of his father (Stevas) and mother (St John-O'Connor). ==Early life== Stevas was born in London. His birth certificate gave his Christian names as Norman Panayea St John and his father as Spyro Stevas, a hotel proprietor, suggesting a Greek background. His Who's Who entry gave his father as Stephen Stevas, an engineer and company director. His mother was Kitty St John O'Connor. They later divorced, and she then hyphenated the name St John. He was closer to his mother than his father.〔http://www.freebmd.org.uk〕 Stevas was educated at St Joseph's Salesian School, Burwash, East Sussex, and then at the Catholic school, Ratcliffe College, Leicester. He was active in the Young Conservatives and as a speaker on Conservative and Catholic platforms. He was a contemporary of Gordon Reece and once reported him to his superiors for atheism. Afterwards he was for six months enrolled at the English College, Rome, a seminary for the Roman Catholic priesthood but found he had no vocation. He remained a lifelong Catholic, however.〔 He then read law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. As an undergraduate, he lived at St Edmund's House (now St Edmund's College〔http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/news/fawsley-2012/index.php〕) and served as President of the Cambridge Union in 1950.〔 He graduated with first class honours and won the Whitlock Prize. He studied also at Oxford University, where he gained a Second in the examination for the BCL degree at Christ Church and was the Secretary of the Oxford Union.〔 He obtained a PhD degree with thesis titled ''A study of censorship with special reference to the law governing obscene publications in common law and other jurisdictions'' (on the early work of Walter Bagehot) from the University of London and a JSD degree from Yale University. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1952. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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