Dennis Vosper, Baron Runcorn

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Dennis Forwood Vosper, Baron Runcorn PC TD ( January 2, 1916 , † January 20, 1968 ) was a Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for fourteen years and was temporarily a minister and in 1964 as a life peer due to the life peerage Act 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Professional career and Member of the House of Commons

Vosper, whose father Partner of Marine Equipment and foreign trade company Wilson, Vosper and Coltart in Liverpool , was completed after the visit of The Leys School in Cambridge and the Marlborough College to study at Pembroke College of Oxford University , which he in 1937 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He then became a partner of Wilson, Vosper and Coltart , before serving in the Cheshire Regiment , a unit of the British Army Territorial Army, between 1939 and 1946 during World War II . Most recently he was promoted to major .

In the general election on February 23, 1950 , Vosper, who was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1950 , was elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Runcorn until he resigned on March 31, 1964 .

After 1950 a short time he beginning of his parliamentary membership Parliamentary Secretary ( Whip ) of the opposition faction was his party in the House, he was after the election victory of the conservative Tories in the general election of October 25, 1951 by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in November 1951 Lord Commissioner of the Treasury appointed and held this office in the Treasury until October 1954. He was then between October 1954 and January 1957 as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Education, one of the closest aides of the then Minister of Education , David Eccles .

Minister and Member of the House of Lords

On January 16, 1957, Vosper was appointed by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to succeed Robin Turton as Minister of Health in his cabinet. At the same time he was appointed Privy Councilor in 1957 . However, he had to resign from this ministerial office a few months later on September 17, 1957 for health reasons and was replaced by Derek Walker-Smith .

In October 1959 Vosper returned to the Macmillan government and initially served as Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Home Office between 1959 and 1960 and was then Minister of State in the Home Office between October 1960 and his replacement by David Renton in June 1961. Most recently he held the office of Secretary for Technical Cooperation in the Macmillan cabinet between June 1961 and October 1963 . In 1964 he was for some time chairman of the National Assistance Board .

After leaving the House of Commons, Vosper was appointed to the nobility by a letters patent dated April 20, 1964 as a Life Peer with the title Baron Runcorn , of Heswall in the County Palatine of Cheshire, and as such belonged to the House of until his death Lords as a member.

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  1. ↑ HANSARD: HOUSE OF COMMONS (PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE) - Session 1954-1955
personal data
SURNAME Vosper, Dennis, Baron Runcorn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vosper, Dennis Forwood, Baron Runcorn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Conservative Party)
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1916
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1968