What is David Mellor?
{{BLP unsourced|date=March 2013}} '''David John Mellor''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KC}} (born March 12, 1949 in Wareham, [[Dorset]], England) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[politician]] who was an MP from 1979 to 1997, as a member of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]]. Mellor became a [[barrister]] in 1972, and a Queen's Counsel in 1987 but is currently not practising. He became a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the [[London]] constituency of Putney, at the 1979 General Election. In 1990, [[John Major]] made him Chief Secretary to the Treasury but after a sex scandal in 1992, Mellor was forced to resign and lost his seat to the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] in the 1997 General Election. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mellor, David}} [[Category:1949 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs]] [[Category:Members of the British House of Commons for English constituencies]] [[Category:English King's Counsel]] [[Category:UK MPs 1979–1983]] [[Category:UK MPs 1983–1987]] [[Category:UK MPs 1987–1992]] [[Category:UK MPs 1992–1997]] {{bio-stub}}