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Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke

Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, PC (born 6 December 1922), is a Labour member of the House of Lords. He was made a Life Peer in 1992.

He was previously a Labour Member of Parliament. At the age of 45 he became profoundly deaf as a result of complications of a routine ear operation. He was the UK's first totally deaf MP. He became a tireless campaigner for the disabled, especially the deaf and blind, and won broad cross-party sympathy, support and respect in parliament for his approach.

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