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The Right Honourable
The Lord Mawhinney, PC
The Right Honourable; The Lord Mawhinney, PC
Shadow Home Secretary
	In office; 11 June 1997 – 11 April 1998
Leader	William Hague
Preceded by	Jack Straw
Succeeded by	Norman Fowler
Chairman of the Conservative Party
	In office; 5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Jeremy Hanley
Succeeded by	Cecil Parkinson
Secretary of State for Transport
	In office; 20 July 1994 – 5 July 1995
Preceded by	John MacGregor
Succeeded by	Sir George Young, 6th Baronet
Personal details
Born	July 26, 1940 (age 83); Belfast, Northern Ireland
Political party	Conservative

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Brian Stanley Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney PC (born 26 July 1940)^[1] is a British Conservative Party politician. He was a member of the Cabinet from 1994 until 1997 and a Member of Parliament from 1979 until 2005.

Early life

Mawhinney was born in 1940 in Belfast and was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution.^[2] He studied physics at Queen's University of Belfast,^[2] gaining an upper second class degree in 1963 and obtained a Ph.D. in radiation physics at the Royal Free Hospital in London.^[2] He worked as assistant professor of radiation research at the University of Iowa from 1968–70 and then returned to the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine as a lecturer from 1970–84.^[2]

Political career

Mawhinney was Member of Parliament for Peterborough from 1979 to 1997 and Member of Parliament for North West Cambridgeshire from 1997 to 2005.^[3] He was PPS to John Wakeham from 1982 to 1983 and PPS to Tom King from 1984 to 1986.^[2] He became a junior minister at the Northern Ireland Office in 1986,^[1] and then became Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office in 1990.^[2] In 1992, he became Minister of State at the Department of Health until 1994 when he entered the cabinet as Secretary of State for Transport.^[2] He served as Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio for two years from 1995 until the 1997 election.^[1] He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the dissolution honours list in 1997. He served as Shadow Home Secretary and spokesman for home, constitutional and legal affairs for a year under William Hague before returning to the back benches in June 1998.^[1] He stepped down from the House of Commons in May 2005.^[4]^[5] On 13 May 2005 it was announced that he would be created a life peer,^[6] and on 24 June he was created Baron Mawhinney, of Peterborough, in the County of Cambridgeshire.^[7]

The Football League

In 2003, he was appointed Chairman of The Football League,^[8] and in 2004 oversaw a re-organisation of the league structure, renaming the former Division One as the Football League Championship.

Personal life

Highly religious, Mawhinney is a leading member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship and was a member of the General Synod for five years.^[1]

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Michael Ward	Member of Parliament for Peterborough 1979–1997	Succeeded by Helen Clark
Preceded by new constituency	Member of Parliament for North West Cambridgeshire 1997–2005	Succeeded by Shailesh Vara
Political offices
Preceded by John MacGregor	Secretary of State for Transport 1994-1995	Succeeded by George Young
Preceded by Jeremy Hanley	Chairman of the Conservative Party 1995-1997	Succeeded by Lord Parkinson
Preceded by Jack Straw	Shadow Home Secretary 1997-1998	Succeeded by Norman Fowler

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Sir Brian Mawhinney". BBC News. 2002-10-18. Retrieved 2008-04-23. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Mawhinney, Brian". Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
^ "…with 27 new working peers…". Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
^ "Mawhinney to leave Parliament". BBC News. 30 September 2003. Retrieved 2007-12-21. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ "End of Commons road for four MPs". BBC News. 2005-04-10. Retrieved 2007-08-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ "Full list of new life peers". BBC News. 2005-05-13. Retrieved 2007-08-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ "Life baronies". The Times. 2005-08-06. Retrieved 2007-08-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ "Mawhinney handed top post". BBC Sport. 2002-12-19. Retrieved 2007-08-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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 ==The Football League==
-In 2003, he was appointed Chairman of [[The Football League]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Mawhinney handed top post|date=[[2002-12-19]]|publisher=BBC Sport|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/2587671.stm|accessdate=2007-08-04}}</ref> and in 2004 oversaw a re-organisation of the league structure, renaming the former Division One as  the Football League Championship.Allowed 2 teams to go through to the championship by default thus bringing game into disrepute...
+In 2003, he was appointed Chairman of [[The Football League]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Mawhinney handed top post|date=[[2002-12-19]]|publisher=BBC Sport|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/2587671.stm|accessdate=2007-08-04}}</ref> and in 2004 oversaw a re-organisation of the league structure, renaming the former Division One as  the Football League Championship.
 ==Personal life==