Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway

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Alan Robertson Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway , ERD , QC (born May 24, 1917 - June 30, 2013 in London ) was a British lawyer , barrister , author , politician ( Conservative Party ) and life peer .

life and career

The son of John Kenneth Campbell and Juliet Pinners attended the Aldenham School in Hertfordshire and the École des Sciences Politiques in Paris , which he graduated in 1934. He studied at Trinity Hall College of the University of Cambridge , where he earned a 1938 Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Law acquired, and a Master of Arts graduated.

In 1939 he was admitted as a barrister to the Inner Temple Bar Association in London and drafted as a volunteer for military service in the Royal Artillery Supplementary Reserve . From 1939 to 1940 he served in France and Belgium as an officer in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), where he was promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant . From 1940 until the end of the war he was a prisoner of war in Colditz .

In 1965 he was appointed Crown Attorney and in 1972 Bencher . From 1967 to 1979 he was a member of the Old Carlton Club Political Committee and from 1974 to 1980 on the Advisory Council of the British Council . Campbell became a member of the United Kingdom Association for European Law's Management Committee in 1975 . In 1976 he was appointed part-time judge ( recorder ) at the Crown Court of England and Wales and held that post until 1989.

From 1965 to 1974 Campbell Consultants (was Consultant ) of the Council of Europe to the area of industrial espionage . From 1968 to 1980 Campbell was Chair of the Legal Research Committee of the Society of Conservative Lawyers .

From 1974 to 1979 he was a member of the Law Advisory Panel of the British Council from 1989 to 1991 he was Vice-President ( Vice -President ) of the Association of Juristes Franco-Britanniques was from 1978 to 2004, he president of Colditz Association . From 1996 to 1999 he was co-patron of the Inns of Court School of Law Conservatives .

Membership in the House of Lords

On June 2, 1981, he was named a Life Peer, Baron Campbell of Alloway, of Ayr in the District of Kyle and Carrick . He made his inaugural address at the House of Lords on July 30, 1981.

When his political interests he gives constitutional issues , defense policy , the European Union , Individual and Collective Labor Law and European Competition Law and restrictions on competition and monopolies and monopoly policy. Campbell served on several Select Committees , from 1982 to 2000 Privileges , from 1987 to 1988 Personal Bills , from 1988 to 1989 Murder and Life Imprisonment and 2000 Joint Consolidation Bills . He was also a member of the House of Lords Ecclesiastical Committee , until 2003 the Joint Committee on Human Rights and the All-Party Committees on Defense and Children .

He was regularly active in debates. After the 2010 general election , Campbell became a member of the Consolidation Bills and Statutory Instruments Committees .

After the death of Baron Glenamara in May 2012, Campbell was the oldest member of the House of Lords until his death.

Further offices and honors

Campbell received the 1996 Emergency Reserve Decoration (ERD) military award and is a member of the Scottish Peers' Association .

family

In 1947 Campbell married Diana Watson-Smyth. From this marriage a daughter was born. In 1953 the couple divorced. Four years later, Campbell married his second wife Vivien de Kantzow, the daughter of Commander Arthur Henry de Kantzow. She died in December 2010.

Publications

  • Colditz cameo: being a collection of verse written by a prisoner of war in Germany . Ditchling Press, 1954 ?, ISBN unknown
  • Restrictive Trade Practices and Monopolies . Sweet & Maxwell, 1956 (or 2nd edition 1966), ISBN 978-0421049208 (with Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce and Neil Elles )
  • Restrictive Trading Agreements in the Common Market . Stevens; Rotham, 1964, ISBN unknown
  • Restrictive trading agreements. Supplement . Stevens & Sons, 1965, ISBN unknown
  • Common Market Law , Longman, 1969, ISBN 978-0582508149
  • Industrial Relations Act, An Introduction, Prentice Hall Press . 1971, ISBN 978-0582508200
  • European Community Competition Law: A Practitioner's Textbook . Elsevier Science Ltd, 1980, ISBN 978-0444854964
  • Trade Unions and the Individual . ESC Pub., 1980, ISBN 978-0906214053 (with John Bowyer )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lord Campbell of Alloway
  2. ^ Peter Beauclerk: Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain (excerpts from Google Books), accessed April 16, 2011
  3. ↑ Who is the cleanest Lord in the House? Article on Channel 4 dated Jan. 28, 2009
  4. ↑ Full list of committee members List of members at Epolitix from July 19, 2010
  5. ↑ Who is the oldest sitting Member of the House of Lords?
personal data
SURNAME Campbell, Alan, Baron Campbell of Alloway
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campbell, Alan Robertson, Baron Campbell of Alloway
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British judge, politician and life peer
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1917
DATE OF DEATH 30th of June 2013
Place of death London