Ian McColl, Baron McColl of Dulwich

Ian McColl, Baron McColl of Dulwich

Ian McColl, CBE (* 6. January 1933 ) is a British doctor , university professor and politician of the Conservative Party , which since 1989 Peer Life Member of the House of Lords is.

Life

Doctor and university professor

After attending Hutchesons' Grammar School in Glasgow and St Paul's School in London , McColl studied medicine at the University of London and was from 1967 to 1971 a surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital and vice dean of the teaching hospital there . He then took over a professorship for surgery at Guy's Hospital in 1971 and worked there until 1999, where he was also director of the surgical department of this hospital between 1985 and 1999.

In addition, McColl was consulting surgeon in the British Army between 1984 and 1999 and at the same time head of the Department of Surgery of the Medical Faculty (School of Medicine) at King's College London from 1987 to 1993 . He was also a member of the Advisory Board of the Royal College of Surgeons of England between 1986 and 1994 and has been a member of its Board of Directors since 1995. McColl also served as vice chairman of the Disablement Services Authority from 1987 to 1991 and then president of the Society for Minimally Invasive Surgery from 1991 to 1994.

Member and deputy speaker of the House of Lords

By a letters patent dated July 25, 1989, McColl was raised to the nobility as a life peer with the title Baron McColl of Dulwich , of Bermondsey in the London Borough of Southwark . Shortly after its introduction was carried out ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house he belongs to the faction of the Conservative Party.

During his membership in the House of Lords, he was Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords between 1994 and 2002 as well as Deputy Chairman of Committees . He was also the private parliamentary secretary of Prime Minister John Major from 1994 to 1997 and was also a member of the House of Lords Committee on Euthanasia from 1994 to 1995 .

During this time he was President of the Union of Endoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland from 1994 to 1997 and has been President of The Leprosy Mission , a Christian organization to combat leprosy , since 1996 . After McColl was President of Mildmay Mission Hospital in East London between 1985 and 1994, he then took over the office of Chairman of the Board of Directors of this hospital from 1994 to 2002. Later was Lord McColl, the 1997 Commander of the Order of the British Empire was, from 1997 to 2010 spokesman of the opposition faction of the Tories of Health.

He has been a board member of the Mercy Ships aid organization since 1998 and has also been Chairman of Mercy Ships in Great Britain since 2000. He was also chairman of James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich between 1998 and 2004 and has also been an administrator of St Paul's School since 2001. With a short break, he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Parliamentary Society of the Commonwealth of Nations in Great Britain since 1999 .

He has been a member of the House of Lords Committee on Science since 2000 and of the House of Lords Committee on AIDS and HIV since 2010 . He has also served as President of the Royal Medical Foundation of Epsom College since 2000 and as Vice President of the Parliamentary Society of the Commonwealth of Nations in Great Britain since 2011.

Other honorary positions, honors and awards

In 1979 he became a member of the Livery Company of the Worshipful Soc of Apothecaries and in 1986 a member of the Worshipful Company of Barber Surgeons, where he was Upper Warden in 1998, Master between 1999 and 2000 and most recently Deputy Master of this society from 2000 to 2001.

In the course of his long professional career, McColl has received several awards, including the Great Scot Award in 2002 and the award of the US National Maritime Historical Society. He is also a Freeman of London and a Fellow of King's College London (2001), the Royal Society of Surgeons of England, the American College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh .

In 2007 Lord McColl became a Knight of the Order of Mercedarians .

Publications

• Intestinal Absorption in Man , (co-author, 1975)
• NHS Data Book (co-author, 1983)

Web links

Commons : Ian McColl  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on November 18, 2012)
• Ian McColl at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed on November 18, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed on November 18, 2012)