Geoffrey Tordoff, Baron Tordoff

Geoffrey Johnson Tordoff, Baron Tordoff (born October 11, 1928 - June 22, 2019 ) was a British economic manager and politician of the Liberal Party and now the Liberal Democrats , who has been a member of the House of Lords since 1981 and deputy spokesman for fourteen years ( Deputy Speaker ) of the House of Lords.

Life

Professional activities, candidacies for the lower house and party chairman

After attending the Manchester Grammar School , Tordoff studied at the University of Manchester and between 1950 and 1983 worked as a manager in the marketing department of Shell Chemicals and most recently in the public relations department of Royal Dutch Shell .

Tordoff ran for the Liberal Party in the general election of October 15, 1964 in the constituency of Northwhich for the first time unsuccessfully for a member of the House of Commons . In the subsequent general election on March 31, 1966 and June 18, 1970 , he again applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons, both times in the Knutsford constituency .

From the mid-1970s he took on several party functions within the Liberal Party and was initially chairman of the party's assembly committee between 1974 and 1976 and then chairman of the Liberal Party until 1979, before being chairman of the party committee for election campaigns and elections between 1980 and 1982.

House of Lords member and deputy speaker of the House of Lords

In 1981 he was raised to the nobility as a Life Peer with the title Baron Tordoff , of Knutsford in the County of Cheshire and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since .

Lord Tordoff, who was President of the Liberal Party between 1983 and 1984, was during his long-standing membership in the House of Lords, first Deputy Whip from 1983 to 1984 and then Chief Whip of the Liberal Party until 1988 and thus Parliamentary Director of the Group of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords. After the dissolution of the Liberal Party in 1988, he was parliamentary executive director of the Liberal Democrats in the upper house between 1988 and 1994 and at the same time he was the transport policy spokesman for his group.

He also served from 1986 to 1992 as honorary president of the British Youth Council ( British Youth Council ) and was further between 1990 and 1994 Chairman of the Committee on the Middle East of the Refugee Council , the Asylum and Refugee Council of Great Britain.

In 1994 Lord Tordoff became Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords ( Deputy Speaker ) and held this position for 14 years until 2008. During this time he was first Vice-Chairman from 1994 to 2001 and then from 2001 to 2002 Chairman of Committees , before he was vice chairman of the committees between 2002 and 2008.

Since 2004, Lord Tordoff, who was a member of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) from 1995 to 2002 , has been Extra Lord in Waiting to HM The Queen .

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on 6 July 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 6, 2012)