Ian Lang

Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton (born June 27, 1940 in Glasgow , Scotland ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party .

Life

After graduating from Rugby School and Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge , he worked as an insurance broker and agent at Lloyd's of London .

Long the Conservative Party was first in after two unsuccessful candidates as a candidate general election in 1979 as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) selected and represented in this first the constituency Galloway . In the following elections in 1983 he was then elected for the constituency of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale in the House of Commons and belonged to this after re-elections in 1987 and 1992 until 1997.

In 1987 he was first entrusted with government work by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as “junior minister” and was initially Minister of State in the Ministry for Scotland.

In 1990, in the government of Thatcher's successor, John Major , he became Secretary of State for Scotland himself and, during his term of office, which lasted until 1995, was entrusted with the difficult task of administering the part of the country, especially since only one eighth of Scotland's Lower House MPs were members of the Conservative Tories were.

As part of a cabinet reshuffle, Lang was appointed Minister of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade in July 1995 . He held these positions until May 1997.

When the Conservative Party suffered a heavy defeat by the Labor Party in the general election in May 1997 , he too was one of the prominent victims who lost their constituency.

After retiring from the House he became a life peer with the title Baron Lang of Monkton , of Merrick and the Rhinns of Kells in Dumfries and Galloway, in the nobility raised, is now on the upper house ( House of Lords ) to.

At the same time, he is back in the private sector and has been a board member of Marsh & McLennan Companies since 1997 .

literature

• Una McGovern (Ed.): Chambers Biographical Dictionary. 7th edition. Chambers, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , pp. 887-888.