Ken Hargreaves
Joseph Kenneth Hargreaves, MBE, KSG (1 March 1939 – 23 June 2012) was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Hyndburn, Lancashire between 1983 and 1992, when he lost his seat to Greg Pope of Labour. A chartered secretary and company administrator by profession, he served as a local councillor and was the Mayor of Hyndburn in 1979, four years before his election to Parliament. Hargreaves founded the "Movement for Christian Democracy" in November 1990, which is now known as "Christian Peoples Alliance" with Liberal Democrat MP David Alton (now Lord Alton of Liverpool) and served as Vice Chairman. After  his defeat at the general election of 1992, he worked for Conservative Central Office as a liaison to local Conservative Clubs. In the general election of May 2005, he supported the unsuccessful candidate for the Conservatives, this being James Mawdsley, a human rights campaigner. Hargreaves was given an Order of the British Empire for services to the community in Lancashire in Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year Honours on 29 December 2006. Before his death in June 2012, he was honoured with a "Papal Knighthood" of the Order of St Gregory the Great. He died on 23 June 2012 at  the "East Lancashire Hospice" in Blackburn. A devout Roman Catholic, he was a parishioner of "St Mary’s RC Church" in Oswaldtwistle in his former constituency.