David Heathcoat-Amory

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David Heathcoat-Amory (2008)

David Philip Heathcoat-Amory (born March 21, 1949 ) is a British Conservative Party politician who represented the Wells constituency as a member of the House of Commons for almost 27 years and was, among other things, Paymaster General .

Life

Origin and occupation

Heathcoat-Amory, son of Brigadier General Roderick Heathcoat-Amory , came from an influential family of politicians and entrepreneurs who were bestowed baronets in 1874 . His great-grandfather Sir John Heathcoat-Amory , the 1st Baronet, was like John Heathcoat , whose maternal grandfather, a long-time member of the House of Commons for the Tiverton constituency . His uncle Derick Heathcoat-Amory was also a member of the House of Commons and, among other things, Chancellor of the Exchequer .

After attending Eton College, he studied at Balliol College and at Christ Church College at the University of Oxford and, after completing his studies with a Master of Arts in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (MAPPE), became an accountant at the conglomerate British Electric Traction and in 1974 later at PricewaterhouseCoopers . He was also a temporary fellow at the Institute for Chartered Accountants . 1980 Heathcoat-Amory, who is also a farmer worked, deputy finance director said on the licensing and marketing of medical developments specialized company BTG and remained employed there until the 1983rd

MPs and government offices

In the general election of June 9, 1983 , he was elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time to a member of the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency of Wells until the general election of May 6, 2010 .

During his long term membership in parliament, he was the private parliamentary secretary of Norman Lamont , Treasury Secretary's Finance Secretary, from 1985 to 1987 , and then of Interior Minister Douglas Hurd , before he was whip of the conservative Tories' government group between 1988 and 1989 .

In 1989 he took over his first government office as "Junior Minister" after he was appointed Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of the Environment. After a subsequent assignment from 1990 to 1992 as Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Department of Energy, he was again Whip of the government faction and at the same time Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household and Deputy Chairman of the influential Committee on Ways and Means .

From 1993 to 1994, Heathcoat-Amory was Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Affairs of the Commonwealth of Nations , where he was responsible for Europe . He was then finally between 1994 and 1996 Paymaster General ( Paymaster General ) in the extended cabinet of Prime Minister John Major .

Opposition politicians and electoral defeat

After the Conservative Party's defeat in the general election of May 1, 1997 , he was appointed to the shadow cabinet formed by the new party chairman William Hague , where he was initially the "shadow chief secretary of the treasury" and then from 2000 to 2005 "shadow minister" for trade and industry ”under Hague's successors Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard , before he was briefly“ shadow minister for labor and pensions ”between May and June 2005.

After David Cameron was elected chairman of the Conservative Party in November 2005, Heathcoat-Amory, who was temporarily a member of the British delegation to the European Convention and is a member of the Europeans United for Democracy , withdrew from the political limelight as a backbencher and was then from 2005 to 2010 member of the House of Commons Committee on Foreign Affairs and of the so-called European Scrutiny Committee , a special committee of the House of Commons to review European Union regulations with regard to their relevance to British law and to make preliminary decisions about the treatment of such regulations in parliamentary debates.

Although Heathcoat-Amory was able to improve its share of the vote by almost 700 votes from 23,071 to 23,760 in the general election on May 6, 2010, he lost his constituency to his liberal-democratic challenger Tessa Munt , who received 44% of the vote, while on him 42 , 5% fell, so that he lost his mandate and left the House of Commons.

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SURNAME Heathcoat-Amory, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heathcoat-Amory, David Philip (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1949