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Keith Harvey Proctor was a Conservative Member of Parliament for Basildon from 1979 to 1983 and for Billericay from 1983 to 1987.
A long-standing member of the Conservative Monday Club, he was Assistant Director from 1969 to 1971 and a member of its Executive Council from 1983 until he stood down as an MP in 1987.
He was well known for what were regarded by many as extreme views on immigration, and for many years was Chairman of the Monday Club's Immigration and Repatriation Committee.
He resigned the conservative whip before being tried for gross indecency in 1987, although it is alleged that some members of his constituency party had already started proceedings to deselect him. He was succeeded as MP by Teresa Gorman at the General Election the following month.
In 1988, with financial backing from former colleagues, including Michael Heseltine and Jeffrey Archer, he opened two shops selling luxury shirts. The shops were called "Proctors" and sold (among other things) a range of knotted silk cufflinks called "Harvey's Nuts". The shops were nicknamed "Shirtlifters."
In 1992 Proctor and Neil Hamilton, then a government minister, were assaulted by two men on a "gay bashing expedition" (although Hamilton is not homosexual). Mr Hamilton's nose was broken in the attack in Proctor's shop in Richmond-upon-Thames.
In 2000 Proctor's stores were forced into liquidation after legal action by Customs and Excise over an unpaid VAT bill.
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