Michael Alison

{{Short description|British politician (1926–2004)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=August 2016}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| image = Michael-James-Hugh-Alison.jpg

| office = Member of Parliament
for Selby
{{nobold|(Barkston Ash 1964–1983)}}

| term_start = 15 October 1964

| term_end = 8 April 1997

| preceded1 = Leonard Ropner

| succeeded = John Grogan

| birth_name = Michael James Hugh Alison

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1926|06|27}}

| birth_place = Margate, Kent, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2004|05|28|1926|06|27}}

| death_place =

| nationality = British

| party = Conservative Party

| spouse = {{marriage|Sylvia Haigh|1958}}

| children = 3 (including James)

| education = Eton College

| alma_mater = {{ubl|Wadham College, Oxford|Ridley Hall, Cambridge}}

| honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable

}}

Michael James Hugh Alison (27 June 1926 – 28 May 2004){{Rayment-hc|b|1|date=March 2012}} was a British Conservative politician.

Born in Margate, Kent,{{Cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1463103/Michael-Alison.html |title = Michael Alison|date = 29 May 2004 |work=Telegraph |accessdate=3 December 2019}} Alison was educated at Eton College; Wadham College, Oxford; and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. During the war, he served in the Coldstream Guards. He was a councillor on Kensington Borough Council from 1956 to 1959 and a research worker on foreign affairs at the Conservative Research Department from 1958 to 1964.

He served as Member of Parliament for Barkston Ash from the 1964 general election until that constituency was abolished for the 1983 general election, and then for the constituency of Selby which replaced it, from 1983 until he stood down at the 1997 general election.{{Rayment-hc|2|1|date=March 2012}}

He held various junior ministerial posts under Margaret Thatcher, including serving as her Parliamentary Private Secretary (1983–87) and as a Minister of State (Northern Ireland Office 1979–81, Department of Employment 1981–83). For ten years from 1987 he was the Second Church Estates Commissioner.{{Who's Who | title=Alison, Rt Hon. Michael James Hugh | id = U5245 | type = was | volume = 1926–2004 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 3 December 2019 }}