Irwin Bellow, Baron Bellwin

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Irwin Norman Bellow, Baron Bellwin JP DL (* 7. February 1923 in Leeds , † 11. February 2001 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party , who originally became involved in the local politics and was one of the chairmen of city councils that by selling from social housing to previous tenants won the support of original Labor Party voters and became a Life Peer member of the House of Lords in 1979 under the Life Peerages Act 1958 . At the beginning of the 1980s, he was Minister of State for local politics.

Life

Economic manager and local politician in Leeds

Bellow came from a Jewish family and completed a law degree at the University of Leeds after attending the Grammar School in Leeds . After completing his studies with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), he worked for several years at the Bellow Sewing Machines sewing machine factory founded by his father , of which he became Chairman of the Board in the 1960s. After the family business was taken over by Staflex in 1969 , he worked for this company and was CEO of Staflex between 1972 and 1978.

At this time, Bellow began his local political engagement with the Conservative Party. He became a member of the Leeds City Council in 1969 and has served as chairman of the City Council's Housing Committee since 1972. 19,569 he was still a magistrate ( justice of the peace ) of Leeds. At that time, Bellwin also engaged in some sports associations and was in the 1970s not only a member of the National Sports Council ( National Sports Council ) but also from 1972 to 1975 also president of the England Basketball Association and temporary president of Moor Allerton Golf Club in Leeds .

Bellow was Chairman of the Leeds City Council from 1975 to 1979. During this time, more than 3,000 social apartments and houses were sold to previous tenants, opening up new layers of original Labor Party voters for the conservative Tories . At the same time, the 36,500 municipal employees were reduced by 2,500 while the range of services was improved. In 1978, his tight control of municipal spending meant that the tax burden on residents was the lowest in the country when compared with other agglomerations. Between 1976 and 1979 he was also chairman of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities .

He also became vice-chairman of the Conservative Party's Local Politics Committee in 1975, playing a prominent role in drawing up his party's local politics program for the May 3, 1979 general election .

House of Lords and Junior Minister

By a letters patent dated May 21, 1979, Bellow was raised to the nobility immediately after the general election based on the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Bellwin , of the City of Leeds, and belonged to the House of Lords until his Death. He was officially introduced to the House of Lords on May 23, 1979 with the assistance of Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys and Janet Young, Baroness Young .

Already on May 7, 1979, he was Under Secretary of Ministry of Environment, where he was considered one of the closest associates of Environment Minister ( Secretary of State for Environment ) Michael Heseltine in charge of local politics. During this until January 6, 1983 permanent activity developed it for the municipalities important bills like the Traffic Act ( Transport Bill ), which as a lighthouse project of the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher respected "right to buy" legislation ( Right-to-Buy -Legislation ) and the extensive Local Government, Planning and Land Bill . The deteriorating government-local government relations in the early 1980s brought forward a number of other large-scale local government bills, culminating in the Council Bill in 1984 , which cut taxes on over-indebted local authorities, and the Paving Bill to abolish Greater London Council (GLC) and the Metropolitan Counties , which were regarded as strongholds of the Labor Party.

After Tom King succeeded Michael Heseltine as Environment Minister on January 6, 1983 as part of a cabinet reshuffle, Bellwin took over as King's successor as Minister of State for Local Policy in the Environment Ministry. He held this position in the second Thatcher government until June 11, 1984 under Patrick Jenkin , who in turn became King's successor as Environment Minister on June 11, 1983.

After leaving the government, he became director of Taylor Woodrow , one of the UK's largest construction companies. In 1985 he also became a member of a commission for the New Towns and vice-president of the International Association for Planned Cities. In addition, Baron Bellwin, who became Deputy Lieutenant of West Yorkshire in 1991 , was a member of numerous boards of directors and between 1993 and 1999 was also chairman of the North Hull Housing Action Trust . He also became a director of the financial services company Stewart Title UK and the Lewis Group in 1993 and a director of Farr Brokers in 1994 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 47849, HMSO, London, May 24, 1979, p. 6641 ( PDF , accessed December 18, 2013, English).
  2. ^ Entry in Hansard (May 23, 1979)
personal data
SURNAME Bellow, Irwin, Baron Bellwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bellow, Irwin Norman, Baron Bellwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2001