Brian Mawhinney

Brian Stanley Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney [ məˈwɪni ] (born July 26, 1940 in Belfast - † November 9, 2019 ) was a British politician .

biography

After attending school, Mawhinney studied at Queen's University of Belfast , the University of Michigan and the University of London and then worked from 1968 to 1970 as an assistant professor of radiation research at the University of Iowa . On his return to Great Britain in 1970 he became a lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and held this position until 1984.

His political career began when he was elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party to the House of Commons in 1979, in which he represented the constituency of Peterborough until 1997 and then the constituency of Cambridgeshire North West until 2005 .

In 1986 he became Undersecretary of State in the Ministry for Northern Ireland in the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher . In the government of Thatcher's successor, John Major , he was then Minister of State in the Northern Ireland Ministry in 1990 and held this office until 1992. Between 1994 and 1995 he was Minister of Transport in the Cabinet Major.

He was then from 1995 to 1997 Chairman (Chairman) of the Conservative Party. After that he was Minister of the Interior in the Conservative Shadow Cabinet until 1998 .

In 2003 he became President of the Football League , which in English professional football forms the substructure of the top division, the autonomous Premier League .

After leaving Parliament, he was raised to the nobility on June 24, 2005 as a Life Peer with the title of Baron Mawhinney, of Peterborough, in the County of Cambridgeshire .

literature

• Una McGovern (Ed.): Chambers Biographical Dictionary. 7th edition. Chambers, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 1028.