Mark Todd | |
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Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire |
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In office 2 May 1997 – 12 April 2010 |
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Preceded by | Edwina Currie |
Succeeded by | Heather Wheeler |
Personal details | |
Born |
Dorchester, Dorset, England |
29 December 1954
Nationality | British |
Political party | Labour |
Spouse(s) | Sarah Todd |
Children | 1 son (Peter) |
Alma mater | Emmanuel College, Cambridge |
Website | www.marktodd.org.uk (Constituency matters) |
Mark Wainwright Todd (born 29 December 1954) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Derbyshire from 1997 to 2010.
Mark Todd became Chairman of Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in January 2014.
His grandfather Alfred Todd was a Conservative MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed from 1929 to 1935.
He went to the independent Sherborne School in north Dorset. He joined Emmanuel College, Cambridge, gaining a Cambridge University BA degree in history in 1976. Todd served for twelve years as a Cambridge City Councillor, spending three years as Leader from 1987–90 and five as Deputy Leader. He was the a non-executive director of consumer co-operative Cambridge & District Co-operative Society, before its 1991 merger with Co-operative Retail Services, and is a member of the Co-operative Party.
He was a managing director at the Longman publishing house from 1977–96. In this company he worked from 1988–92 in Industry and Public Service management, from 1990–92 at Carter Mill and in information technology from 1992–94.