John Thurso

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John Thurso

John Archibald Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso (born September 10, 1953 ), known as John Thurso , is a Scottish politician.

Life

Thurso was born to Robin Macdonald Sinclair, 2nd Viscount Thurso and his wife Margaret . He attended a school in Thurso and Eton College . He then took a position in the management of the Savoy hotel chain and ran a hotel in Paris between 1981 and 1985 . Thurso then built a hotel in Cliveden and led it until 1992. He was then first of Granfel Holdings ago, the Champneys Group and joined the BBC telecast Trouble at the Top on.

In 1976 Thurso married Marion Ticknor Sage , with whom he had three children, Louisa (* 1980), James (* 1984) and George (* 1989). John Thurso lives with his family in Thurso, Northern Scotland.

Political career

The family has been linked to liberal politics for generations. Thurso's grandfather Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, was chairman of the Liberal Party between 1935 and 1945 . After his father's death in 1995, Thurso inherited the title of Viscount Thurso and took his seat in the House of Lords . There he was spokesman for tourism and nutrition. With the reform of the House of Lords in 1999 , most of the hereditary parliamentary seats were abolished. He left the House of Lords.

In the first elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 Thurso applied for a list mandate of the Liberal Democrats in the electoral region of Highlands and Islands . However, as a result of the election result, he missed the entry into the Scottish Parliament. In the 2001 general election , he ran in the constituency of Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross for a seat in the House of Commons . He inherited his party colleague Robert Maclennan , who was raised to a life peer and therefore no longer ran. He won the mandate before the Labor Party candidate and entered the lower house for the first time. He became the first former member of the House of Lords to gain a seat in the House of Commons without having given up his title of nobility.

Between 2003 and 2005 Thurso was designated as Minister of Transport in the Liberals' shadow cabinet . In the following general election in 2005 and 2010 , he defended his mandate. Before the 2010 elections, Thurso was the shadow liberal minister for economics. In the general election in 2015 , Thurso could not prevail against the SNP candidate Paul Monaghan and he was subsequently eliminated from the British House of Commons. On April 19, 2016 Thurso was elected as the successor to the late Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury in the House of Lords and thus after 17 years again a member of the House of Lords.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c John Archibald Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso on thepeerage.com , accessed August 20, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d Information about John Thurso ( Memento from March 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Results of the 2001 general election ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net
  4. ↑ BBC: John Thurso: The hereditary peer who became an MP , February 22, 2011
  5. ↑ a b Information from the British Parliament
  6. ↑ Results of the lower house elections 2005 ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net
  7. ↑ Results of the 2010 general election ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net
  8. ↑ Results of the general election 2015
  9. ↑ Liberal Democrat hereditary peers' by-election, April 2016: result

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predecessor Office successor
Robin Sinclair Viscount Thurso
1995 – today 		current title holder
personal data
SURNAME Thurso, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sinclair, John Archibald, 3rd Viscount Thurso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1953