Hamish Gray, Baron Gray of Contin

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James Hector Northey Gray, Baron Gray of Contin , PC (born June 28, 1927 in Inverness , † March 14, 2006 ibid), primarily known under the name Hamish Gray , was a Scottish politician and life peer .

Life

Gray received his education at the Inverness Royal Academy . Immediately after World War II, he served in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders infantry regiment in India from 1945 to 1948 .

From 1965 to 1970 he was a member of Inverness City Council. In the 1970 general election , he moved for the Scottish Conservative Party as a representative of Ross and Cromarty in the British House of Commons . There he held the office of Whip from 1971 to 1973 , after which he served for a year as Lord of the Treasury in the Ministry of Finance and Economics . Under Margaret Thatcher's administration , he was Minister of State in the Department of Energy from 1979 to 1983 . In 1982 he became a member of the Privy Council . In the parliamentary elections in 1983 he could not prevail in his constituency against the SDP candidate Charles Kennedy and left the House of Commons.

During his time in Parliament he campaigned, among other things, for the construction of the Kessock Bridge near Inverness. He also worked with Alex Eadie to enforce a special support law for children with learning disabilities in Scotland.

In 1983 he was promoted to the status of a Life Peer . Since then he has officially carried the title Baron Gray of Contin, of Contin in the District of Ross and Cromarty . In the House of Lords he was initially entrusted with the office of Minister of State for Scotland for three years , before he increasingly withdrew from active politics from the age of sixty.

From 1989 Gray was Deputy Lieutenant (DL) in Inverness, from 1996 to 2002 he was even Lord Lieutenant there .

Gray had been married since 1953 and had 3 children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Obituary on independent.co.uk accessed on February 5, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d e Hamish James Hector Northey Gray, Baron Gray of Contin on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Obituary on heraldscotland.com accessed on February 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Gray, Hamish, Baron Gray of Contin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gray, James Hector Northey, Baron Gray of Contin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons, Life Peer
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Inverness
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2006
Place of death Inverness