Image copyright Getty Images This year saw the loss of a politician who pulled off one of the biggest upsets in by-election history, a key figure in the Northern Ireland peace process and a Tory MP born during World War One. But they weren"t the only former MPs to pass away in 2015. Read part one here.
Arthur Latham, 14 August 1930 – 3 December 2016Labour"s Arthur Latham was the MP for Paddington North, and then Paddington, from 1969 to 1979.
He entered Parliament in a by-election caused by the death of MP Ben Parkin.
His first parliamentary question was on the policing of cricket grounds, ahead of the planned tour of the UK by the South African team of 1970.
Among the subjects he focused on in Parliament were animal rights (on one occasion, complaining about the practice of fitting blinkers to pheasants) and sex and race discrimination.
Mr Latham also campaigned for tenants" rights, a particular issue in his part of London, in which slum landlords operated.
In 1972, he..
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