Mark Hendrick
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Mark Hendrick MP |
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Member of Parliament for Preston |
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Assumed office 24 November 2000 |
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| Preceded by | Audrey Wise |
| Majority | 12,067 (36.1%) |
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2 November 1958 Salford, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour Co-operative |
| Alma mater | Liverpool John Moores University, Victoria University of Manchester |
| Website | www |
Mark Phillip Hendrick (born 2 November 1958) is a British Labour Co-operative politician. Since the 2000 Preston by-election, at which he retained the seat for his party, Hendrick has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency. He is a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Hendrick previously represented the Central Lancashire seat as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994–1999.
Hendrick was born in 1958 in Salford, Lancashire. Of Anglo-Somali descent, his father worked in the timber industry.
Hendrick studied at the Salford Grammar School. He later attended Liverpool Polytechnic (now Liverpool John Moores University), where he completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He also earned a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Manchester. Additionally, Hendrick is a Chartered Engineer and holds a Certificate in Education teaching qualification from the same institution.
Hendrick trained as a student engineer with the Ministry of Defence in 1979 at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Malvern, Worcestershire. He later studied German at a Volkshochschule Hanau in Germany in 1981, where he trained as a student engineer with AEG Telefunken. In 1982, he was appointed as a Higher Professional and Technology engineer with the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Daresbury Laboratory, and stayed with the SERC for six years.
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