David Roy Lidington was born in 1956.

He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree, and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He took an honours degree in History and then a doctorate for research on Elizabethan history.

He is married to Helen, who worked as a primary school teacher before the birth of their sons, Christopher (born 1993), Thomas (born 1995) and twins Edward and James (born 1997). They live in the constituency in Princes Risborough.

David Lidington worked for BP and RTZ before being appointed in 1987 as Special Advisor to the then Home Secretary (Rt Hon Douglas Hurd CBE MP). He moved to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1989 when Douglas Hurd became Foreign Secretary.

He has had the privilege of twice captaining a champion University Challenge team, first in 1978 and then in 2002 when the Sidney Sussex team became "champion of champions" in University Challenge Reunited.

In the 1987 General Election, David fought Vauxhall. He was adopted as prospective Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Aylesbury in December 1990 and was elected as Member for Parliament for that Constituency in 1992.

Since his election, David has served as member of the Education Select Committee and as joint-secretary of the Conservative Backbench Home Affairs Committee. He successfully promoted a Private Members Bill which became the Chiropractors Act 1994.

David Lidington was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then Home Secretary, the Rt Hon Michael Howard QC MP, from August 1994 to 1997.

He was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition, Rt Hon William Hague MP, in June 1997.

During the reshuffle in June 1999 David Lidington was appointed Shadow Opposition Spokesman at the Home Office under Ann Widdecombe.

In September 2001 he was appointed Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury under Michael Howard.

In May 2002 he was appointed Shadow Minister for Agriculture.

In November 2003 he became Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
David was re-elected to Aylesbury in 2005 with a majority of 11,067, an increase on his majority of 10,009 in 2001.

In August 2006, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with a Shadow Cabinet seat.

Aylesbury constituency is made up of the urban areas of Aylesbury Town, Stoke Mandeville, Weston Turville, Wendover, Great Missenden, Princes Risborough and Stokenchurch as well as numerous other villages and hamlets. If you are not sure if David is your MP you can check your postcode on the Internet, at http://www.locata.co.uk/commons