Ian Orr-Ewing, Baron Orr-Ewing

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Charles Ian Orr-Ewing, Baron Orr-Ewing Bt OBE ( February 10, 1912 - August 19, 1999 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for twenty years and who was in 1971 because of the life peerage Act 1958 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Degree, engineer and World War II

Orr-Ewing was a great-grandson of Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing, 1st Baronet , who represented the Dunbartonshire constituency as a Member of the House of Commons between 1868 and 1892 . He graduated after attending the Harrow School to study electrical engineering at Trinity College of the University of Oxford , which he in 1933 with a Bachelor of Arts graduated (BA Electrictal Engineering). He then began studying physics and was also a working student at the EMI Group from 1934 to 1937 .

After working as an engineer for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between 1937 and 1939 , he joined the Royal Air Force voluntary service at the beginning of World War II in 1939 and took part in missions in Italy , North Africa and Northwest Europe. His last position was in 1945 on the staff of General Dwight D. Eisenhower as a radar officer. After the war he returned to the BBC as an engineer and worked there until 1949.

Member of the House of Commons and Junior Minister

In the general election of February 23, 1950 Orr-Ewing was elected for the first time as a candidate of the Conservative Party to the House of Commons and represented there until the general election on June 18, 1970 for the Conservative Tories, the constituency of Hendon North .

After the Conservative Party in the general election on October 25, 1951 won the majority in the House and Winston Churchill the Prime Minister could ask, he was 1951-1955 Parliamentary private secretary to Labor Minister Walter Monckton . In 1956 he became secretary of the so-called 1922 Committee , the parliamentary association of backbenchers of the Conservative Party.

Later, he was from 1957 to 1959 Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Air Minister ( Secretary of State for Air ) George Ward and then Parliamentary briefly Financial Secretary of the Admiralty before it from 1959 to 1963 as a civil Lord Chief Engineer of the Admiralty ( Civil Lord of the Admiralty was).

Baronet and member of the House of Lords

Orr-Ewing, who was bestowed the hereditary title of Baronet , of Hendon in Middlesex, in 1963 , was Vice-President of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee in 1966, and then Vice-President from 1966 to 1970. Chairman of the House of Commons Defense Committee.

After retiring from the House, he was by a Letters Patent of 30 April 1971 as a Life Peer with the title Baron Orr-Ewing , of Little Berkhamsted in the County of Hertfordshire, in the peerage was one and as such until his death in the House of Lords as a Member, serving in the British Parliament for almost fifty years .

Baron Orr-Ewing was first vice-chairman and then between 1972 and 1977 chairman of the Metrication Board , which dealt with the introduction of the metric system of units in Great Britain. At the same time he acted from 1972 to 1976 as chairman of the British Ski Federation ( National Ski Federation ). In addition, between 1980 and 1986 he was vice chairman of the Association of Conservative House Members.

After his death, his eldest son Sir Alistair Simon Orr-Ewing followed him as 2nd Baronet.

Publications

  • A Celebration of Lords and Commons Cricket 1850-1988 , 1989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sir Alistair Simon Orr-Ewing, 2nd Bt. On thepeerage.com , accessed September 12, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Orr-Ewing, Ian, Baron Orr-Ewing
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orr-Ewing, Charles Ian, Baron Orr-Ewing (full name); Sir Ian Orr-Ewing, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1912
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1999