Terence Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham

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Terence George Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham QC (21 March 1930 - 23 July 2011) was a British Labour Party politician.

He was educated at King's College London where he took an LLB in law in 1954, and was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1960.

He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Faversham at a by-election on 14 May 1964, following the death of the Labour MP Percy Wells.

He was re-elected at the general election in October 1964 and again in 1966, but was defeated at the 1970 general election by the Conservative Roger Moate.

In the 1976 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours, Boston was given a life peerage as Baron Boston of Faversham, of Faversham in the County of Kent.

He served as a deputy speaker of the House of Lords 1991-2008 and twice served as Chairman of Committees, 1994-1997 and 1997-2000.

Lord Boston was a Patron of the African Prisons Project, an international non-governmental organisation with a mission to bring dignity and hope to men women and children in African prisons through health, education, justice and reintegration.