Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham

Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham (2004)

Douglas Martin Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham QC (* 5. February 1945 in the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea , London , England ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party , who for over thirty years as a member of the House of Commons and, among other Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and diet was. He has been a member of the House of Lords since 2015 .

Life

Hogg came from a well-known family of lawyers and politicians and was the grandson of Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham , who was two-time Lord Chancellor , Minister of War and Lord President of the Council , and son of Quintin McGarel Hogg , who was among other things First Lord of the Admiralty and Lord Seal Keeper , but also Lord President of the Council and two times Lord Chancellor.

He himself studied after visiting the Eton College Law at Christ Church College of Oxford University and received the lawyer's admission at the 1968 Bar Association of Lincoln's Inn . He then worked as a barrister and was appointed Crown Attorney in 1990 .

In the general election of May 3, 1979 , Hogg was elected for the first time as a candidate of the Conservative Party to the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency of Grantham until May 1, 1997 , before he was elected in the Sleaford constituency after the general election of May 1, 1997 North Hykeham was elected MP and served in the House of Commons until May 6, 2010. During his membership in parliament he was first between 1982 and 1983 Parliamentary Private Secretary to Leon Brittan , the chief secretary of the Treasury, and then until 1984 Whip of the conservative government group .

In 1986 he took over his first government office as “Junior Minister” after he was appointed Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of the Interior and was then Minister of State from 1989 to 1990 in the Ministry of Trade and Industry. From 1990 to 1995 he was Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , the British Department for Foreign Affairs and Affairs of the Commonwealth of Nations .

As part of a cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister John Major appointed him Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on July 5, 1995 , and held this post until the end of Majors' term on May 1, 1997. After the electoral defeat of the Tories in the general election on May 1, 1997, he was a member of the shadow cabinet of his party as "shadow minister for agriculture, fisheries and food" for a short time until June 17, 1997 .

When his father Quintin McGarel Hogg died on October 12, 2001, he inherited his title as Viscount Hailsham , which he had renounced in 1963. Since almost all of the hereditary seats in the House of Lords were abolished due to the House of Lords Act 1999 , inheriting the title did not automatically make him a member of the House of Lords.

During his membership in the House of Commons from April 2009 to May 2010, he was a member of the House of Commons Committee on Justice. On October 12, 2015, Hogg was named a Life Peer with the title Baron Hailsham of Kettlethorpe , of Kettlethorpe in the County of Lincolnshire. With that he finally became a member of the House of Lords.

He has been married to Sarah Boyd-Carpenter since 1968 , who was raised to life peeress as Baroness Hogg in 1995 .

Web links

• Mr Douglas Hogg at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You
• Cracroft's Peerage
• Douglas Hogg: Electoral history and profile ( Memento of February 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: The Guardian (accessed December 23, 2011)

predecessor	Office	successor
Quintin McGarel Hogg	Viscount Hailsham 2001 – today	current title holder