Eric Syddique
Eric Mahmood Syddique (1936 - January 2020)[1][2] was chief executive of the UK Electoral Reform Society in the 1990s.[3][4][5][6]
From 2001 to 2013 he was secretary of Electoral Reform International Services, which provides assistance in conducting elections worldwide.[7][8] He has written extensively for Voting matters[9] and Representation.[10]
Syddique was a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House,[11] and vice chairman of the UK's H S Chapman Society.[12] He was also a member of the Council of the Hansard Society.[13]
In 1986 Syddique was Chairman of the Lewisham and Kent Islamic Centre.[14]
He wrote the entry for Enid Lakeman (one of his predecessors as ERS chief executive, who died in 1995) in the 2004 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.[15]
In 1971 he was elected a member of the Liberal Party Council.[16]
From 1973 to 1995[1] Eric Syddique was a Liberal Democrat member of Sevenoaks District Council in Kent.[17][18]
Eric Syddique died aged 84 in January 2020 at home in Eynsford, where he had lived for 60 years.[1]
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- ^ The Farningham & Eynsford Local History Society. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
- ^ Minutes of planning enquiry 19 November 2003 Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 27 February 2010.