Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale

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Frederick James Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale , PC (born May 27, 1914 , † September 14, 2000 ) was a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords .

Life

Erroll studied at Trinity College of Cambridge University Engineering and worked as an engineer before the start of World War II. With the beginning of the war he was drafted to the 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) (TA). He was transferred to an armored unit in 1941, and although he served in the Territorial Army (TA), he was on military service in Italy, India and Burma. At the end of the war he had reached the rank of Colonel and was considered the youngest soldier in the Territorial Army to achieve this rank.

In the elections to the British Parliament in 1945 he was the youngest member of the House of Commons for the constituency of Altrincham and Sale in Greater Manchester . From 1948 to 1952 he was the deputy chairman of the Science Committee of Parliament and from 1955 to 1958 Parliamentary State Secretary .

In 1962, Erroll, who had been a member of the Privy Council since 1960 , became President of the Board of Trade , promoting British industry around the world in this capacity. After Harold Macmillan's resignation as prime minister, he was appointed to the cabinet as energy minister by his successor Alec Douglas-Home , against whom he had originally spoken out. During his time as energy minister, there was a strike by the power plant workers against which he took a hard line and he continued it through private companies who can produce natural gas in British territory in the North Sea.

In the parliamentary elections of 1964, in which the Conservative Party lost its majority in the lower house, he was able to defend his seat with a majority of 10,037 votes, but on the advice of his doctor, he did not stand for it after severe pneumonia. He was proposed by Douglas Home in its resignation honors for elevation to the hereditary nobility and raised by the Queen to Baron Erroll of Hale , of Kilmun in the County of Argyll . From 1966 he was then chairman of the London Chamber of Commerce and from 1969 to 1973 the director of Canning House , a foundation that cares about relations between Great Britain and Latin America. As chairman of the Automobile Association , the British automobile club , which he was from 1974 to 1986, he brought the first women to its board of directors.

He chaired the Erroll Committee, named after him, that in 1977 proposed lowering the age at which alcohol can legally be served to people to 17 years and easing the opening times of restaurants.

In 1999, shortly before most of the hereditary nobles had to leave the House of Lords on the basis of the House of Lords Act 1999 , he was accepted there as Baron Erroll of Kilmun , of Kilmun in Argyll and Bute , as a life peer .

family

Frederick Erroll had been married since 1950 and the couple had no children. With this, the hereditary title of nobility expired with the death of Frederick Erroll.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 43522, HMSO, London, December 22, 1964, p. 10933 ( PDF , accessed October 10, 2013, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 55672, HMSO, London, November 19, 1999, p. 12349 ( PDF , accessed October 10, 2013, English).
predecessor Office successor
New title created Baron Erroll of Hale
1964-2000 		Title expired
personal data
SURNAME Erroll, Frederick, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erroll, Frederick James, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1914
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2000