Robert Syms

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Robert Syms MP

Member of Parliament
for Poole
Incumbent
Assumed office 
1 May 1997
Preceded by John Devereux Ward
Majority 5,988 (14.8%)

Born 15 August 1956 (1956-08-15) (age 53)
Chippenham, Wiltshire
Nationality British
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) (1) Nicola Guy div. 1999
(2) Fiona Mellersh

Robert Andrew Raymond Syms (born 15 August 1956, Chippenham) is a politician in the United Kingdom.

He is Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Poole in Dorset,

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Early life

Educated at Colston's School, Bristol. He was leader of North Wiltshire District Council from 1984-7 and a Wiltshire County Councillor from 1985-97. He was managing director of his family's plant hire firm on Bristol Road in Chippenham.

Parliamentary career

He contested Walsall North in 1992. He was elected to the House of Commons in the 1997 general election.

Personal life

He married Nicola Guy in March 1991 in Chippenham, but divorced in 1999. He married Fiona Mellersh in February 2000 in Kensington. They have a daughter (born July 2000) and a son (born November 2001).

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Ward
Member of Parliament for Poole
1997–present
Incumbent

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