Anthony Steen
Anthony David Steen (born 22 July 1939) is a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2010, and the chairman of the Human Trafficking Foundation. Having represented Totnes in Devon since 1997, he was previously MP for South Hams from 1983, and had also been the MP for Liverpool Wavertree between February 1974 and 1983. He is widely-acknowledged as one of the foremost figures acting to combat human trafficking in the UK.
Early life
He was born in 1939 to Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Stephen Nicholas Steen (formerly Stein), one time chairman and president of Smith & Nephew, and Jacqueline Annette, daughter of William (formerly Wolko or Woolf) Slavouski, a Russian fur and skin trader. He attended Westminster School and University College London where he gained an LLB. He became a barrister in 1962. In 1964, he founded Task Force, an organisation where young people help the elderly with the help of a government grant and served as its Director from 1964–68. He then founded the Young Volunteer Force, serving as Director from 1968–74. He also worked on the Court Martials' Defence Counsel for the Ministry of Defence from 1964–68. From 1964–67 he lectured in Law at the Council of Legal Education. From 1970–71, he was an advisor to federal and provincial Canadian governments on unemployment and youth problems.
