Ian Stewart, Baron Stewartby

Bernard Harold Ian Halley Stewart, Baron Stewartby Kt PC RD FRSE FSA FBA (born August 10, 1935 - March 3, 2018 ) was a British economic manager , numismatist and politician of the Conservative Party , who was a member of the House of Commons from 1974 to 1992 and was a member of the House of Lords from 1992 to 2015 .

Life

Military and professional career and member of the House of Commons

After attending school, Stewart trained as a reserve officer of the Royal Naval Reserve between 1954 and 1956 and was most recently promoted to lieutenant commander . After further training, he was a broker at Seccombe Marshall & Campion from 1959 to 1960 and later director of the British Numismatic Society from 1965 to 1975.

After he had run unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in the general election of June 18, 1970 in the constituency of North Hammersmith for the Conservative Party, he became director of the private bank Brown, Shipley & Co in 1971 and worked there until 1983. In 1972 he was awarded the Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve .

In the general election on February 28, 1974 Stewart was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and first represented the constituency of Hitchin , before he represented the constituency of Hertfordshire North after the election of June 9, 1983 to the general election on April 9, 1992 . From 1977 to 1979 he was a member of the House Committee on Public Spending and at the same time between 1978 and 1979 he was the spokesman for the opposition faction of the Conservative Tories for the banking law.

In addition to his mandate in the House of Commons, he was also active in local politics and was a member of the Haileybury Council between 1980 and 1995 . In his constituency of Hertfordshire he was also active as Vice President of the Child Protection Association from 1974 and Vice President of St John Ambulance from 1978 and was also Vice-Chairman of the Committee of the Child Protection Association in Westminster from 1975 to 1992 .

Junior minister

After the success of the Conservative Party in the general election on May 3, 1979 and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's inauguration , he took over his first government office and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor Geoffrey Howe until 1983 and then from January to October 1983 Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Defense and there responsible for military procurement.

In October 1983 he returned to the Treasury ( Treasury back) and was there until 1987. Economic Secretary with special responsibility for monetary policy and financial institutions before it to 1988 as Minister of State for the army again worked in the Defense Ministry afterwards. Most recently, Stewart was Minister of State with the Northern Ireland Minister between 1988 and 1989 . Most recently he was a member of the House of Commons Committee on Public Accounts from 1991 to 1992 during his membership in the House of Commons.

During this time he became Commander of the Order of Saint John in 1986 and a member of the Privy Council in 1989 .

Economic manager and member of the House of Lords

After he was no longer entrusted with a government office by Thatcher's successor, John Major, in 1990 , he increasingly took on functions in the private sector , where he was Chairman of The Throgmorton Trust plc between 1990 and 2005 and director of Diploma plc from 1990 to 2007 .

1991 Steward was a Knight Bachelor for beaten knights and led from then the name suffix "Sir". In 1992 he became Knight of Justice of the Order of Saint John. By a letters patent dated July 20, 1992, he was raised to the higher nobility after leaving the House of Commons as a life peer with the title Baron Stewartby , of Portmoak in the District of Perth and Kinross . Shortly thereafter, he was introduced as a member of the House of Lords .

In the following years he continued to work in the private sector and was chairman of Delian Lloyd's Investment Trust plc from 1993 to 1995, at the same time vice chairman of Standard Chartered plc (1993 to 2004) and Amlin plc (1995 to 2006) and between 1995 and 1995 2002 Director of the Portman Building Society. During this time he served 1993 to 1997 as Director of the Financial Market Authority Financial Services Authority (FSA) in 1994 and was Honorary Fellow of Jesus College of the University of Cambridge .

Lord Stewartby, a recognized financial professional, was temporarily secretary of the Conservative Party's Parliamentary Finance Committee and from 2000 to 2005 trustee of the Parliamentary Pension Fund. In addition, he was chairman of the Treasury Appraisal Committee from 1996 to 2001.

Furthermore, he was involved in numerous organizations such as from 1993 to 2003 as chairman of the committee of the British Academy for the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles , of which he had been a member since 1967. Since 2002 he has also been President of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust.

Lord Stewartby, who was a Fellow of the British Academy (1981) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1986), has been Honorary Caretaker of the Medieval Coin Collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge since 2008 .

On November 12, 2015, he declared his retirement and left the House of Lords.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on November 1, 2012)
• Ian Stewart at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 1, 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 1, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed November 1, 2012)