Ashok Kumar (British politician)

Ashok Kumar

Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
In office 1 May 1997 – 15 March 2010
Preceded by	Constituency Created
Succeeded by	Tom Blenkinsop
Member of Parliament for Langbaurgh
In office 7 November 1991 – 9 April 1992
Preceded by	Richard Holt
Succeeded by	Michael Walton Bates
Majority	1,975 (3.8%)

Personal details
Born	28 May 1956 Uttar Pradesh, India
Died	15 March 2010 (aged 53) Marton, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, UK
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Residence	Marton, Middlesbrough
Alma mater	Aston University
Profession	Research scientist

Ashok Kumar (28 May 1956 – 15 March 2010) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland from 1997 until his death shortly before the 2010 general election.

Kumar was born in Haridwar, Uttar Pradesh, India, to Jagat Ram Saini and Santosh Kumari, who emigrated to Derby when he was twelve years of age. He attended Rykneld Secondary Modern School, Derby. He left at 15 to study for O-levels at Wilmorton College, and attended Derby & District College of Art & Technologyfor his 'A' Levels. He then studied chemical engineering at Aston University, Birmingham where he was awarded a BSc in 1978, and an MSc in Process Analysis and Control Theory in 1980, and a PhD in Fluid Mechanics in 1982. The thesis title was Velocity distributions in a plate heat exchanger. He was a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Energy Institute.

He was a Research Fellow at Imperial College London (1982–5) and worked as a research scientist at British Steel Corporation in Middlesbrough from 1985 to 1997.