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He served in the House of Commons continuously from until , and was also previously an MP from to He was Father of the House between and Tapsell was born in Hove , Sussex. He was educated at Tonbridge School, served in the Royal Sussex Regiment from to , and continued his education at Merton College, Oxford , gaining a BA in Modern History in , during which time he was also elected Librarian of the Oxford Union a senior office.

Tapsell worked as a personal assistant to Sir Anthony Eden during the general election. He contested the Wednesbury by-election in , losing to the Labour Party candidate John Stonehouse. Tapsell was chairman of the Coningsby Club a dining club for Conservative graduates, restricted at that time to graduates of Oxford and Cambridge from until He first entered Parliament in the general election, representing Nottingham West.

After losing his seat at the general election, he was selected for Horncastle, representing the constituency from to In , boundary changes moved Tapsell to East Lindsey, which he represented until when further boundary changes moved him to Louth and Horncastle. Tapsell was knighted in Tapsell was a long-time supporter of Keynesian economics , and opposed the monetarist policies of Margaret Thatcher 's governments.

In , he voted against Sir Geoffrey Howe 's Budget — becoming, as Peter Oborne noted, "the first Conservative since Harold Macmillan in the s to vote against a Budget, a brave move which turned him into an internal political exile. Tapsell was known for his forthright views and was sometimes controversial. Tapsell was opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan , and called for Tony Blair to be impeached for misleading parliament over the invasion of Iraq.

From onwards he was the only MP from any party who had been first elected in the s, but the two-year gap in his parliamentary service prevented him from becoming Father of the House until Alan Williams retired in