Edward you Cann

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Sir Edward Dillon Lott du Cann , KBE , PC (* 28. May 1924 , † 31 August 2017 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party and business leaders , among others, 1956-1987 Member of Parliament ( House of Commons ) as well as 1965 to 1967 Chairman (Chairman) of the Conservative Party was. In addition, he served between 1972 and 1984 as chairman of the influential 1922 committee consisting of the backbenchers (backbenchers) of the conservative Tories .

Life

Edward Dillon Lott du Cann, son of barrister and writer Charles du Cann and his wife Janet Murchie du Cann, completed after the visit of Colet Court and founded in 1577 Woodbridge School to study law at St John's College of the University of Oxford . During the Second World War he served on a torpedo boat in the Royal Navy . After the end of the war he worked for an investment firm before starting his political career in the Conservative Party in the early 1950s . He ran initially unsuccessfully in the election on October 23, 1951 in the constituency of Walthamstow West and the election on May 26, 1955 in the constituency of Barrow-in-Furness for a seat in the House of Commons .

On February 14, 1956, du Cann was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Commons in a by -election in the Taunton constituency for the Conservative Tories and was a member of this until June 11, 1987. He thus became the successor of Henry Hopkinson selected, the levied as 1st Baron Colyton to nobility and thus a member of the upper house ( House of Lords ) was. Between 1962 and 1963 he held the post of Economic Secretary of the Treasury . and functioned after between 21 October 1963 to 16 October 1964 as Minister of State (Minister of State) in the Department of Commerce ( Board of Trade ) . On December 22, 1964, he was also a member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) .

After the Conservative Party's defeat in the general election on October 15, 1964 , Edward du Cann became opposition spokesman for trade and shipping. In 1965 he succeeded John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham as chairman (chairman) of the Conservative Party and held this position until 1967, when Anthony Barber was his successor. He released in 1972 Harry Legge-Bourke as chairman of the influential, from the backbenchers (Backbencher) existing conservative Tories 1922 Committee , and this function practiced twelve years until his replacement by Cranley Onslow from 1984th In this capacity, on behalf of the conservative backbenchers, he called on the previous Prime Minister Edward Heath after the loss of power in the general election on February 28, 1974 and the renewed defeat of the Conservative Party in the general election on October 10, 1974 on October 13, 1974, to join one to make a new election within the party. After Heath initially resisted the demand and sought a trial of strength with the members of the committee, he finally had to bow in November 1974 and agree to a new election. In late November 1974, Margaret Thatcher announced her own candidacy after party right wing leader Keith Joseph decided not to run for her own. Du Cann himself was seen as a possible successor to Heath in the short term. In November 1974, however, he announced that he did not want to run himself - a decision that contemporary witnesses and historians also justified with the fact that du Cann himself did not believe that his unfortunate business activities in the City of London were subject to detailed scrutiny in the critical light of the public would withstand. Du Cann's company, Keyser Ullman, ran into serious trouble after the end of the banking boom and du Cann was criticized as "incompetent". Du Cann, who chaired the 1922 committee longer than any other, worked closely and loyally with Thatcher for the years that followed. He had access to Thatcher's office at all times and was the link between her and the backbenchers. After his departure, however, Thatcher lost more and more contact with the backbenchers of their party. In 1981 he also succeeded Theodore Constantine, Baron Constantine of Stanmore as President of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations and held this office until his replacement by John Taylor in 1982.

On December 31, 1984 Edward du Cann was made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". After leaving the House of Commons on June 11, 1987, he moved into the private sector and was deputy director of mortgage broker Homes Assured until 1987 and director of financial company Lonrho Holdings Limited between 1987 and 1991, a position he had to give up after the finance firm Homes Assured , went bankrupt; du Cann had worked there as vice chairman. His withdrawal came just two days before the company collapsed.

His marriage to Sallie Innes, which was closed in 1962 and divorced in 1990, resulted in two daughters and a son. After divorcing his first wife, he married Jennifer Cooke for the second time, but she died in 1995.

Publications

  • Investing simplified. A guide to unittrusts, investment clubs and other share-purchase schemes , London 1959
  • Parliament and the purse strings. How to bring public expenditure under parliamentary control , London 1977, ISBN 0-8507-0598-3
  • Two lives. The political and business careers of Edward du Cann , Upton upon Severn 1995, ISBN 1-8978-1760-6
  • The Wellington Caricatures , 1996, ISBN 1-8978-1772-X
  • The Duke of Wellington and his political career after Waterloo. The caricaturists' view , Woodbridge 2000, ISBN 1-8514-9341-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Economic Secretary to the Treasury (HANSARD 1803-2005)
  2. ↑ PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1915 - 1968 (leighrayment.com)
  3. ^ Richard Vinen: Thatcher's Britain. The Politics and Social Upheaval of the 1980s . Simon & Schuster, London 2009, p. 70.
  4. ↑ John Campbell: Margaret Thatcher. Volume Two: The Iron Lady . Vintage Books, London 2008, p. 454.
  5. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES (leighrayment.com)
  6. ^ Stephen Ward: Du Cann will apply to have bankruptcy order lifted: Former chairman of Conservative Party faced petition for solicitors' bills . In: The Independent , March 26, 1993. Retrieved September 25, 2010. 
personal data
SURNAME you cann, edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES du Cann, Edward Dillon Lott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1924
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 2017