Arthur Cockfield

Francis Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield (born September 28, 1916 in Horsham , † January 8, 2007 in Oxford ), was a British Conservative Party politician . Cockfield has served as the UK Treasury Secretary, Trade Secretary and Vice President of the European Commission .

Cockfield studied at the London School of Economics . He then went through a career in tax administration. In Margaret Thatcher's cabinet he was Treasury Secretary from 1979 to 1982, and then Minister of Commerce until 1983. After the British general election in 1983 , she acted as a "one-man think tank " for Margaret Thatcher.

From 1985 to 1989 he was Vice-President of the Delors I Commission and responsible for the internal market , taxation and customs union .

In 1978 he was raised to a life peer with the title Baron Cockfield , of Dover in the County of Kent, and was a member of the House of Lords until his death .

Individual evidence

^ Arthur Cockfield - Creator of the European Single Market. The Dover Historian, June 1, 2013, accessed May 10, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Cockfield, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cockfield, Francis Arthur, Baron Cockfield
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British politician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Horsham
DATE OF DEATH	January 8, 2007
Place of death	Oxford

[1] Arthur Cockfield - Creator of the European Single Market. The Dover Historian, June 1, 2013, accessed May 10, 2015 .