Ian Gilmour

Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar PC (born July 8, 1926 - September 21, 2007 in London ) was a British editor , writer and politician of the Conservative Party .

biography

After schooling at Eton College , he made 1944 to 1947 his military service in the British Army in the Grenadier Guards , the second oldest regiment of the Guards Division ( Guards Division ) . After he completed his studies at Balliol College of Oxford University . In 1952 he was a barrister admitted.

Between 1954 and 1967 he was the owner of The Spectator , a weekly magazine for politics and culture . At the same time he was editor of the magazine from 1954 to 1959.

In 1962, he began his political career when he at a by-election ( by-election ) in the constituency Central Norfolk for the first time as a deputy in the lower house ( House of Commons ) has been selected and that constituency represented by the 1974th He was then from 1974 to 1992 a Member of the House of Commons for the constituency of Chesham and Amersham .

After the Conservative Party won the elections, he became Undersecretary of State in 1970 and then Minister of State in the Ministry of Defense in 1972 . In 1974, at the end of Prime Minister Edward Heath's term of office, he was himself Defense Minister in his cabinet for a short time . Upon the death of his father Sir John Little Gilmour, 2nd Baronet, he inherited his title of Baronet , of Liberton and Craigmillar in the County of Mitlothian, in 1977.

After the Tories won the general election on May 3, 1979 , Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appointed him Lord Seal Keeper in the first cabinet. In December 1979 he was a member of the British delegation to negotiate the Lancaster House Agreement , which laid the foundation for Zimbabwe's sovereignty . However, he lost the post of Lord Privy Seal in September 1981 at a cabinet reshuffle and remained until his retirement from the House in 1992 only backbenchers ( back-bencher ). As a representative of the moderate “one-nation” wing of his party , he was one of the critics of Thatcher's policies.

After retiring from the House, he was in 1992 with the title Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar to Life Peer collected and belonged until his death in the upper house ( House of Lords ) to. Successor as lower house deputy in the constituency Chesham and Amersham was Cheryl Gillan , the 2010 Minister for Wales in the Cabinet Cameron I was.

Publications

Gilmour was also the author of several books in which he dealt with political and historical subjects, but also with poets . His major publications include:

• The Body Politic (1971)
• The Inside Right: A Study of Conservatism (1977)
• The Riot, Risings and Revolution: Governance and Violence in Eighteenth-century England (1992)
• The Dancing with Dogma: Thatcherite Britain in the Eighties (1992)
• Whatever Happened to the Tories: The Conservatives since 1945 (1997, co-author Mark Garnett)
• The Making of the Poets : Byron and Shelley in Their Time (2002)

Web links

• Ian Gilmour in nndb (English)
• Ian Gilmour at Hansard (English)
• Literature by and about Ian Gilmour in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar on thepeerage.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1. Thatcher's cabinet (BBC NEWS)

predecessor	Office	successor
John Gilmour	Baronet, of Liberton and Craigmillar 1977-2007	David Gilmour
New title created	Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar 1992-2007	Title expired