Jeremy Hanley

Sir Jeremy Hanley KCMG (born November 17, 1945 ) is a British Conservative Party politician who represented the constituency of Richmond and Barnes as a member of the House of Commons between 1983 and 1997 and was temporarily without portfolio minister .

Life

After attending rugby school , Hanley, son of actors Jimmy Hanley and Dinah Sheridan and brother of actress Jenny Hanley , was employed in 1963 at the management consultancy , tax consultancy and auditing company Peat Marwick Mitchell & Company . There he became a certified public accountant in 1969 and a Chartered Certified Accountant in 1980 . At the same time he worked as vice chairman and lecturer for law at the Financial Training Company, where he trained auditors.

After Hanley in 1978 at a by-election ( by-election ) without success in the constituency Lambeth Central candidate, he was in the general election of 9 June 1983 first elected as member of the House of Commons and represented there by 1 May 1997 constituency Richmond and Barnes . During his parliamentary membership, he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Art Minister Richard Luce from 1987 to 1990 and, for a short time, to Environment Minister Chris Patten .

In 1990 he took over his first government office as "Junior Minister" after he was appointed Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Northern Ireland Ministry and was then Minister of State from 1993 to 1994 in the Ministry of Defense.

1994 he was appointed minister without portfolio in the cabinet of Prime Minister John Major and was also at this time to 1995, Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Conservative Party. Between 1995 and 1997 he was Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Commonwealth of Nations .

After the dissolution of his constituency, he ran in the general election of May 1, 1997 in the newly created constituency of Richmond Park , but was defeated by the candidate of the Liberal Democrats , Jenny Tonge .

After leaving the House of Commons, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George and has since had the suffix "Sir". At the same time he took on various tasks in the private sector and was, among other things, director of the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce.

Web links

• Jeremy Hanley at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You