Ivor Richard

Ivor Seward Richard, Baron Richard (born May 30, 1932 in Cardiff - † March 18, 2018 ) was a British politician . He was a member of the House of Commons and the European Commission and was a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Richard was born in Cardiff in 1932, the son of a mining engineer. After attending Cheltenham College and then Pembroke College in Oxford , where he graduated with a BA in law in 1953, he was admitted to the bar in 1955 and then worked as a criminal defense lawyer in London until 1974. He also represented one of the people involved in the Great Train Robbery in 1963 in court. He was appointed Crown Attorney in 1971.

politics

Richard moved to the UK House of Commons as a Labor Party MP for Barons Court in 1964 . Two years later, the Labor Party repeated its election victory and Richard was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Defense Secretary Denis Healey . In 1969 he was in charge of the army division in the Ministry of Defense, before the Tories came back to power a year later. Richard became opposition spokesman for the postal and intelligence services and in 1971 deputy foreign policy spokesman for his faction, which he remained until 1974.

In the House of Commons elections in February 1974, the Labor Party re-formed the government, but Richard was unable to win his seat and not enter parliament. He was appointed Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York by Harold Wilson . This he remained until 1979. In January 1981 he was the successor to Roy Jenkins as EC Commissioner in Brussels . Christopher Tugendhat became the UK's second commissioner for budget, financial control and taxation, while Richard took on social affairs, employment, education and training. In 1984 he left the Brussels Commission and instead became a board member of World Trade Center Wales Ltd. in 1985. in Cardiff. He was raised to the nobility ( Life Peer ) in 1990 as Baron Richard , of Ammanford in the County of Dyfed , and moved into the British House of Lords, where he took over the leadership of the opposition in 1992. After the Labor Party victory under Tony Blair in the general election on May 1, 1997, Richard returned to government. He was appointed Lord Seal Keeper and Leader of the House of Lords on May 3, 1997 in Blair's cabinet. In 1998 he was replaced by Margaret Jay .

Web links

• Ivor Richard at Hansard (English)
• Ivor Richard , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 36/1997 from August 25, 1997, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former Labor Cabinet Minister Lord Richard dies aged 85. In: itv.com. March 19, 2018, accessed March 19, 2018 .