Jim Prior

James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior, was a British Conservative Party politician. A Member of Parliament from 1959 to 1987, he represented the Suffolk constituency of Lowestoft until 1983 and then the renamed constituency of Waveney from 1983 to 1987, when he stood down from the House of Commons and was made a life peer. He served in two Conservative cabinets, and outside parliament was Chairman of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 2004.

11 October 1927

Born on the same birth date (11 October 1927): Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium

Born on the same birth day (11 October): Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar • Brett Salisbury • Bruce Bartlett • Curtis Amy • Jacob Preston (rugby league) • John Nettles • Jérémie Janot • Kika van Es • LaVell Edwards • Michael Stear • Nello Pagani • Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium • Rima Te Wiata • Ron Leibman • Saul Friedländer • Stephen Williams (British politician) • Stevenson Archer (1786–1848) • Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia (1552–1553) • Volodymyr Horilyi • William R. Forstchen

Born in the same month (October 1927): B. S. Abdur Rahman • Barbara Cook • César Milstein • Dana Elcar • Dominick Argento • Fritz Wintersteller • Jim Elliot • Sandy Gall • Turgut Özal • Wolf Kahn