David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford

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David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford

David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford , PC (born January 18, 1936 ) is a British Conservative Party politician , journalist and adviser.

He was Minister of Energy and Minister of Transport under Margaret Thatcher . After the parliamentary elections in 2010, he was Minister of State in the Foreign Ministry until 2012. Along with William Hague , Sir George Young and Kenneth Clarke , he is one of the few ministers from the 1979-1997 government who still held higher positions in the party.

family

Howell is the son of Colonel Arthur Howard Eckford Howell, who served in the Royal Artillery, and Beryl Stuart Bowater.

Life

He went to Eton College , then studied at King's College (Cambridge) , where he graduated with a Master of Arts (MA) in 1959 . He worked in the Treasury from 1959 to 1960 , during which time he wrote the book Principles to Practice , and then was a journalist for The Daily Telegraph for 4 years . He ran unsuccessfully in the British general election in 1964 . He became director of the Conservative Political Center from 1964 to 1966 , during which time he wrote The Conservative Opportunity .

Political career

Two years later, in 1966, he won the Guildford constituency seat in Surrey for the Conservative Party and held that seat until the 1997 British general election . That year, on April 19, he was promoted to Life Peer as Baron Howell of Guildford , of Penton Mewsey in the County of Hampshire .

Howell was junior minister in the cabinet of Edward Heath's government from 1970 to 1974, was Lord Commissioner of Treasury and Parliamentary Secretary of State in the Civil Service Department in 1970/71 . He was also Undersecretary of State in the Department of Labor and, later, the Northern Ireland Department and, in 1974, the Department of Energy.

When Margaret Thatcher was elected in 1979, she made Howel her Secretary of State for Energy and later transferred to the Department of Transportation. It was at this time that he was writing the book Freedom and Capital , published in 1981 . In 1979 he was appointed to the Privy Council. In 1986 he published his next book Blind Victory: a study in income, wealth and power . In 1987 he became chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In 2001 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Japanese Order of the Holy Treasure .

From the 2010 election to the 2012 cabinet reshuffle, Lord Howell was Secretary of State in the State Department in David Cameron's government under William Hague as Secretary of State .

Personal

Howell married Cary Davina Wallace in 1967; they have three children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Charles Mosley: Burke's Peerage and Baronetage , 107th edition, Volume 2, p. 1989.
  2. ↑ David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford on thepeerage.com , accessed August 17, 2015.

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SURNAME Howell, David, Baron Howell of Guildford
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Howell, David Arthur Russell, Baron Howell of Guildford
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons, journalist and advisor
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1936