Alistair Cooke, Baron Lexden

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Alistair Basil Cooke, Baron Lexden , OBE , (born April 20, 1945 in Colchester , Essex ) is a British historian and Conservative Party politician .

Life

Cooke is the second son of Basil and Nancy Irene Cooke (née Neal). From 1966 he studied history in Cambridge , Edinburgh and Belfast . From 1971 he worked in Belfast as a lecturer and tutor for Modern British History, where he received his doctorate in 1979.

From 1977 until his death in 1979 he was political advisor to the shadow minister for Northern Ireland, Airey Neave . During this time and then until 1997 he was employed in the Conservative Research Department , from 1988 to 1997 he was director of the Conservative Political Center . In 1988 he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire . Since 2007 he has been the official historian of the Carlton Club and since 2009 also the official historian of the Conservative Party.

In December 2010, at the suggestion of David Cameron, he was made a Life Peer and has since been officially named Baron Lexden , of Lexden in the County of Essex and of Strangford in the County of Down.

Fonts

  • Tory Heroine. Dorothy Brant and the Rise of Conservative Women . Sumfield & Day. Eastbourne 2008.
  • A Gift from the Churchills. The Primrose League 1883-2004 . Carlton Club, London 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile of Lord Lexden. In: Democracy Live. Retrieved October 4, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Sam Macrory: Political Orphan's Tale. (PDF) In: The House Magazine. Retrieved February 28, 2011, October 4, 2012 (221kB, with a photo of Alistair Cooke, Baron Lexden by Paul Heartfield).
  3. ↑ About Lord Lexden. In: www.alistairlexden.org.uk. Retrieved October 4, 2012 .
  4. ^ Profile of Lord Lexden. In: www.parliament.uk. Retrieved October 4, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Cooke, Alistair, Baron Lexden
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cooke, Alistair Basil, Baron Lexden (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian and Conservative Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Colchester , Essex