John MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market

John MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market

John Roddick Russell MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market OBE (* 14. February 1937 in Glasgow , Scotland ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party .

Life

After attending Merchiston Castle School, he first studied at the University of St Andrews , the oldest university in Scotland, and then at King's College London .

His political career began as a candidate of the Conservative Party in 1974 when he first time as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) was chosen and this until 2001 the constituency of Norfolk South represented.

In 1985 he was appointed to the government by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for the first time and was initially Chief Secretary of the Treasury , having previously been an expert on the Treasury in her shadow cabinet. After a cabinet reshuffle, he became Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1987, before becoming Minister for Education and Science between 1989 and 1990.

After Thatcher's successor, John Major, took office as Prime Minister, MacGregor became Lord President of the Council in 1990 and, as such, was also leader of the governing majority in the House of Commons until 1992 and thus Leader of the House of Commons . When Major reshuffled his government in 1992, he became Minister of Transport and held this position until 1994.

After retiring from the House, he was on 5 July 2001 as Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market , of Pulham Market, the Norfolk for Life Peer collected and heard as such the upper house ( House of Lords ) as a member.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Margaret Thatcher, Downing Street No. 10 , 3rd ed. 1993, p. 593

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the British Parliament (accessed 23 June 2017)
• John MacGregor at Hansard (English)
• Entry on TheyWorkForYou
• John MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market in nndb (English)