Simplify the following text for a Grade 11 native English-speaking person.
Original: James Gerald Douglas Howarth , known as Gerald Howarth ( born September 12 , 1947 ) is a British politician and the Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Aldershot in the United Kingdom .
Simplified: James Gerald Douglas Howarth known as Gerald Howarth ( born 12 September 1947 ) is a British Conservative Party politician .