Bill Cash Biography: Age, Height, Parents, Wife, Children, Net Worth, Family

Bill Cash is a British politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1984.

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Bill Cash Biography

Sir William Nigel Paul Cash CH was born on 10 May 1940.

Cash was born in Finsbury, London, to a political family, which included seven Liberal Members of Parliament, including John Bright.

Cash grew up in Sheffield and was educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire before attending Lincoln College, Oxford, where he took an MA in History. He qualified as a solicitor in 1967, and since 1979 has practised as a solicitor on his own account (i.e. he is neither employed by a law firm nor is he a member of a partnership)

Bill Cash Age

Bill Cash is 83 years old

Bill Cash Nationality

Bill Cash is a British

Bill Cash Parents

Bill Cash’s father was Paul Cash Bill Cash’s mother is Moyra Cash

Bill Cash Siblings

He is a distant cousin of country music singer Johnny Cash

Bill Cash Career

A member of the Conservative Party, he was first elected for Stafford and then for Stone in Staffordshire in 1997. Cash is a prominent Eurosceptic. Following his tenth election victory in the 2019 general election, aged 79, Cash became the oldest sitting member of the House of Commons.

Cash was the founder of the Maastricht Referendum Campaign in the early 1990s, and is now the elected Chair of the House of Commons’ European Scrutiny Committee. He has also served as a vice president of the Eurosceptic pressure group Conservatives for Britain, and to this day is one of the strongest critics of the European Union from the Conservative Party. In June 2023, he announced his intention to stand down at the next general election.

He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2014 Birthday Honours for political services. He was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in the 2023 Resignation Honours

Cash entered Parliament in 1984, when he was elected as MP for Stafford at a by-election in May following the death of Sir Hugh Fraser. Since the 1997 election he has been MP for Stone, Staffordshire. Stone was a then newly (re-)created constituency, the previous version of which (with slightly different boundaries) had been abolished in 1950.

He has been chairman of various parliamentary committees. He was elected unopposed as Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee on 8 September 2010, and has been a member of the Select Committee on European Legislation since 1985. Cash was elected chairman of the Conservative Backbench Committee on European Affairs (1989–91).

In June 2023, he was one of six Conservative MPs to vote against censuring Boris Johnson following the Commons Privileges Committee investigation.

Bill Cash Wife

Cash married Bridget Mary (née Lee) at Wardour Castle Chapel in Wiltshire on 16 October 1965, and they have two sons and a daughter. His son is the journalist William Cash.

Along with his wife, Bill Cash restored the now Grade I Upton Cressett Hall in the 1970s. The Hall was subsequently voted the ‘Best Hidden Gem’ heritage destination in the UK at the 2011 Hudson’s Heritage awards

Bill Cash Children

His children are Laetitia Cash and William Cash.

On 28 May 2009, it was reported that Cash had claimed £15,000 which he paid his daughter, Laetitia Cash, a prospective Conservative candidate, as rent for a Notting Hill flat, when he had a mortgaged flat of his own a few miles away, which his son Sam Cash was staying in rent-free. “It was only for a year, she was getting married, and she wasn’t there. My other flat wasn’t round the corner, it was in Westminster. It was done through the rules”, he said on Newsnight.

Bill Cash Net Worth

As of 2023, William Cash’s net worth is $5 Million.

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