Frank Dobson (politician, 1940)

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Frank Dobson

Frank Gordon Dobson (born March 15, 1940 in York , England - † November 12, 2019 ) was a British Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons between 1979 and 2015 and Minister of Health between 1997 and 1999 .

Life

Member of the House of Commons and opposition politician

After attending the Archbishop Holgate Grammar School , Dobson studied economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and graduated in 1962 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.). He then worked for the Central Electricity Generating Board as well as the Electricity Council between 1970 and 1975 and was already involved in voluntary work, for example as governor of the Argyle Primary School .

He began his political career in local politics when he was a member of the council of the London Borough of Camden between 1971 and 1976 and its chairman from 1973 to 1975. He was then Deputy Secretary in the Office of the Ombudsman of the London Borough of Camden from 1975 to 1979 and also became Chairman of Coram's Field and the Harmsworth Memorial Playground in 1978 .

In the general election of May 3, 1979 Dobson was elected as a Labor Party candidate for the first time in the House of Commons, where he initially represented the constituency of Camden Holborn and St Pancras South . Since the general election of June 9, 1983 , he represented the constituency of Holborn and St Pancras in the lower house and was last re-elected in the general election of May 6, 2010 with 46.1 percent of the vote. In the general election in 2015 , he did not run again.

During his long membership in parliament, he was first spokesman for the opposition Labor Group for Education between 1981 and 1983 and then in the shadow cabinet of his party's "Shadow Health Minister", before he was head of the lower house in the shadow cabinet and coordinator of the Labor Party election campaigns from 1987 to 1989 . In the following shadow cabinets of his party he was "shadow energy minister" between 1989 and 1992, then "shadow environment minister", from 1993 to 1994 "shadow minister for transport" and most recently from 1993 to 1997 "shadow minister for London and the environment". His staff in the early 1990s included Chris Bryant , who has also been a member of the House of Commons since 2001 and who represents the Rhondda constituency .

Minister of Health and Mayoral candidate in London

After the Labor Party won the general election on May 1, 1997 , Dobson was appointed Secretary of State for Health by Prime Minister Tony Blair in his first cabinet, a member of which he was until his replacement by Alan Milburn in October 1999.

On May 4, 2000, he stood as the official candidate of the Labor Party in the election of Mayor of London , but took third place in the first ballot behind the independent candidate Ken Livingstone and the candidate of the Conservative Party , Steve Norris .

He then became involved in numerous other committees and has been a member of the Administrative Board of the University of York since 2001, Governor of the Royal Veterinary College since 2002 , member of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine since 2008 and Governor of the Coram Foundation since 2008 . In the House of Commons he was a member of the Administrative Committee between 2005 and 2008 and was a member again between 2010 and 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary for Frank Dobson in The Independent
personal data
SURNAME Dobson, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dobson, Frank Gordon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH York , England
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2019