Geoffrey Finsberg, Baron Finsberg, (13 June 1926 – 8 October 1996) was a British Conservative politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hampstead from 1970 to 1983, and for its successor constituency, Hampstead & Highgate, from 1983 to 1992. Early life Finsberg was born in Hampstead in 1926 into a devout Jewish family, who were politically inclined towards the Conservatives. The only son of the late Montefiore Finsberg, MC, and May Finsberg (née Grossman), Finsberg was educated at Hendon County Grammar School and the City of London School. From 1944 to 1947, he worked in coal pits as a Bevin Boy, this period spanning the latter part of the Second World War. Finsberg served at Glapwell colliery in Derbyshire; in 1993, he was elected as the first president of the Bevin Boys Association. Political career Local government From a young age, Finsberg was active in the Conservative Party, and was founder chairman of Mansfield Young Conservatives from 1946 to 1947; this was the area where he was working as a Bevin Boy. He subsequently became chairman of the Hampstead Young Conservatives, aged 22, at a time when the constituency had nearly 1,000 party members. Before he turned 23, Finsberg was elected as a councillor for the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead at the 1949 local elections, representing the West End ward. The same year, he became a member of the Executive Committee of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, a role he would hold until 1979. Finsberg was keen to get into Parliament, and, along with many others, he schemed to remove Hampstead's incumbent Conservative MP, Charles Challen, and replace him with Henry Brooke. The latter was returned at the general election of 1950, and later became Home Secretary. According to The Times, Finsberg "saw himself in the direct line of succession". In 1953, he moved to represent Hampstead's Central ward as a councillor, where he topped the poll, repeating this feat at the 1956 elections. He was subsequently re-elected at the following two council elections. At the 1955 general election, he stood for Parliament in the Labour-held seat of Islington East, without success. Finsberg served as National Chairman of the Young Conservatives from 1954 to 1957. He became a Justice of the Peace (JP) for Inner London in 1962. By 1965, the London boroughs had been reorganised, and Finsberg had moved to the new Borough of