Julian Amery

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Julian Amery in Tel Aviv, November 1965

Harold Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh , PC (* 27. March 1919 in London , † 3. September 1996 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party .

He was a member of the House of Commons from 1950 to 1966 and 1969 to 1992 , Secretary of State for Air from October 1960 to July 1962 , Minister of Aviation from July 1962 to October 1964 , Minister for Public Buildings and Works from June to October 1970 1970 to 1972 Minister for Housing and Building and from November 1972 to March 1974 Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the cabinet of Edward Heath . In 1992 he was promoted to Life Peer and thus a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Family origins and World War II

Amery was the son of the politician Leopold Stennett Amery , who from 1922 to 1924 was Minister of the Navy ( First Lord of the Admiralty / Lord High Admiral ) , from 1924 to 1929 Colonial Minister (Secretary of State for the Colonies) and from 1940 to 1945 Minister for India and Burma ( Secretary of State for India and Burma ) , and his wife Adeliza Florence Louise Hamar Greenwood. His older brother, John Amery , born in 1912, agitated during the Second World War for the National Socialist German Reich against the government of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and thus against his own father; he was convicted of high treason in 1945 and executed.

After attending the Summer Fields School and the renowned Eton College, Julian Amery himself completed a degree at Balliol College at the University of Oxford . During the Second World War he did his military service and was promoted to Second Lieutenant on April 25, 1941 .

Member of the House of Commons and Minister

In the general election of February 23, 1950 Amery was elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time a member of the House of Commons and initially represented the constituency of Preston North until his defeat in the elections of March 31, 1966 . He won his first election with 21,880 votes (55.1 percent) against the Labor Party candidate Samuel Segal , who received 20,950 votes (46.3 percent).

On January 18, 1957, he was appointed to a government office for the first time by his father-in-law, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan , and initially took over the post of Under-Secretary of State and Financial Secretary for War in his government . In this role he was also Vice President of the Her Majesty's Army Council . One of his associates was David Gibson-Watt as his Parliamentary Private Secretary . He then functioned from November 28, 1958 to October 28, 1960 as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies . His then private secretary was the clerk and diplomat Rex Browning .

As part of a government reshuffle, Amery was appointed Secretary of State for Air on October 28, 1960 by Prime Minister Macmillan to succeed George Ward . At the same time he became in 1960 member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) . He held the post until his replacement by Hugh Fraser on July 16, 1962 and took over the post of Minister of Aviation from Peter Thorneycroft as part of this recent cabinet reshuffle . He also held this ministerial office in the subsequent government of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home between October 18, 1963 and October 16, 1964.

Re-election to the lower house and upper house member

In the general election on March 31, 1966, Amery lost his seat in the lower house. He suffered a loss to Labor candidate Ronald Henry Atkins , who received 21,539 votes (53 percent), while he received 19,121 votes (47 percent). In a by-election (by-election) in the Brighton Pavilion constituency on March 27, 1969, which had become necessary due to the resignation of William Teeling , he was able to vote against the Labor candidate with an overwhelming majority of 17,636 votes (70.5 percent) Party, Thomas Skeffington-Lodge , which received only 4,654 votes (18.6 percent). He represented this constituency until April 9, 1992.

After the election of the Conservative Tories in the general election on June 18, 1970 , Amery became Minister of Public Buildings and Works on June 23, 1970 and held this ministerial office until it became part of the Environment Ministry on October 15, 1970 has been. Following this reorganization, he served as Minister for Housing and Construction in the Ministry of the Environment between October 15, 1970 and his replacement by Paul Channon on November 5, 1972 . He was then from November 5, 1972 until the end of Heath's tenure on March 4, 1970 Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs) .

Upon leaving the House of Commons, Amery was named a Life Peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 , entitled Baron Amery of Lustleigh , of Preston in the County of Lancashire and of Brighton in the County of East Sussex , by Letters patent dated July 8, 1992 , raised to the non-hereditary nobility. This made him a member of the House of Lords , to which he belonged until his death on September 3, 1996.

Amery was married to Lady Catherine Macmillan from 1950 until her death in 1991, the eldest daughter of the future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and his wife Lady Dorothy Evelyn Cavendish. From this marriage three daughters and one son were born.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 35945, HMSO, London, March 16, 1943, p. 1304 ( PDF , accessed October 21, 2016, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 41291, HMSO, London, January 21, 1958, p. 479 ( PDF , accessed October 21, 2016, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 41380, HMSO, London, May 2, 1958, p. 2831 ( PDF , accessed October 21, 2016, English).
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 41516, HMSO, London, October 7, 1958, p. 6109 ( PDF , accessed October 21, 2016, English).
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 41542, HMSO, London, November 7, 1958, p. 6791 ( PDF , accessed October 21, 2016, English).
  6. ↑ London Gazette . No. 44820, HMSO, London, April 1, 1969, p. 3465 ( PDF , accessed October 21, 2016, English).
personal data
SURNAME Amery, Julian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amery, Harold Julian, Baron Amery of Lustleigh (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons and the House of Lords
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1996
Place of death London