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Jinvlitatiol!ll Card from The Speaker of the House of Commolllls

Sir Bernard Weatherill, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1983 to 1992,
requests the pleasure of the company of The Rt. Hon. John Major MP and Mrs Major
on Tuesday 22nd November 1988, following the State Opening of Parliament.
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Tbe Speaker

requests the pleasure ef the compar~y' ef

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in the State Rooms, Speaker's House,

following the State Opening ef Parliament
on £es~ k:Znd,1/ov~bec

Please reply to
Speaker's Secretary (Invitations)
House ef Commons
London SWJA OAA Reception: 12 .oo noon -1.00 p.m.

In 1988, John Major, Conservative MP for Huntingdon, was Chief Secretary to the Treasury, having
entered the Cabinet in June 1987. His later rise to power was as Chancellor of the Exechequer, and then
as Prime Minister. John Major was made a Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter in 2005.

Sir Bernard Weatherill, later Lord Weatherill, was The Speaker from 1983 to 1992 and died in 1997,
John Major attending his memorial service.
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