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Dominic Grieve was born in London the son of Percy Grieve (MP for Solihull 1964-1983) and was educated at Westminster School and Balliol College, Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Modern History in 1978. Earning his Master's Degree in 1979, he also acted as the President of the Conservative Association whilst at Oxford in 1977. He finished his studies at the Polytechnic Of Central London where he received a diploma in Law in 1980. He was Called To The Bar at the Middle Temple in 1980 and is a practising Barrister . He was elected as a councillor in the London Borough Of Hammersmith And Fulham in 1982, remaining a councillor until 1986. He contested the Norwood constituency in the London Borough Of Lambeth at the 1987 General Election but finished in second place some 4,723 votes behind the veteran Labour MP John Fraser . He was elected to the House Of Commons for the Buckinghamshire seat of Beaconsfield at the 1997 General Election following the retirement of Tim Smith . Grieve was elected with a majority of 13,987 votes and has remained the MP there since. He made his Maiden Speech on May 21 , 1997 {Link without Title} . In Tory terms he is regarded as a Europhile and a Centrist . He was a member of both the environmental audit and the statutory instruments Select Committee s from 1997 to 2001. William Hague promoted him to the Frontbench in 1999 when he became a spokesman on Scottish Affairs , moving to speak on Home Affairs as the spokesman on criminal justice following the election of Iain Duncan Smith as the new Leader Of The Conservative Party in 2001, and was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet by Michael Howard in 2003. He was retained by the new Conservative Leader, and remains at his post. He was a Police Station lay visitor for six years from 1990, and was a member of the London Diocesan Synod of the Church Of England for a further six years from 1994. He has been married to fellow barrister, Caroline Hutton since 1990 and they have two sons, James and Hugo, and is a keen Canoeist . EXTERNAL LINKS
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