Mark Carlisle, Baron Carlisle of Bucklow

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Mark Carlisle, Baron Carlisle of Bucklow , QC , DL , PC ( July 7, 1929 - July 14, 2005 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons between 1964 and 1997 . Between 1979 and 1981 he was Minister of Education and Science. In 1987 he was promoted to life peer .

Life

Lawyer and Member of the House of Commons

Carlisle, son of Philip Edmund Carlisle and his wife Mary Gamon, began studying law at the University of Manchester after attending Radley College in Abingdon-on-Thames , which was founded in 1847 , and he earned a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. ) completed. In 1953 he was admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Gray's Inn ) and then took up a position as a lawyer ( barrister ). In a by-election in the constituency of St Helens , he ran for a seat in the lower house for the first time on June 12, 1958, but was clearly defeated by Labor Party candidate Leslie Spriggs with 14,411 votes (35.3 percent) and 26,405 votes (64.7 percent) ) were omitted. In the general election on October 9, 1959 , he ran again in the constituency of St Helens and was again defeated with 21,956 votes (37.9 percent) to the constituency owner of the Labor Party Leslie Spriggs, who this time received 35,961 votes (62.1 percent).

In the general election on October 15, 1964 , Carlisle was elected for the first time for the conservative Tories as a member of the House of Commons and initially represented the constituency of Runcorn until June 9, 1983 . Following the election of the Conservatives in the general election on June 18, 1970 , he took over on June 24, 1970 as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office) in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Edward Heath his first government post and had this to April 7, 1972. For its legal merits the title of a 1971 he was Solicitor General (Queen's Counsel) awarded. After a government reshuffle, held between April 7, 1972 and March 4, 1974 the office of Minister of State in the Home Office (Minister of State, Home Office) . Between 1976 and 1979 he worked as an honorary judge (recorder) at the Criminal Court ( Crown Court ). On November 6, 1978, he was appointed to the shadow cabinet of the chairman of the Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher , where he was responsible for education and science as Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science .

Minister for Education and Science and Member of the House of Lords

After the electoral victory of the Tories in the general election on May 3, 1979 , Carlisle took over the post of Secretary of State for Education and Science in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on May 5, 1979 and held this post until he was in During a government reshuffle on September 14, 1981, the previous Minister of Industry, Keith Joseph , was replaced. At the same time he was also on May 5, 1979. Member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council appointed). Due to his legal merits, he became a member of the board of directors of the Gray's Inn Bar Association in 1980 as a so-called "Bencher" and between 1981 and 1998 was again active as a recorder at the Crown Court. In addition, he was Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of the county of Cheshire in 1983 . In the general election on June 9, 1983 , he was now re-elected in the Warrington South constituency as a member of the House of Commons, to which he was now until June 11, 1987.

By a letters patent dated November 2, 1987, he was raised as Baron Carlisle of Bucklow , of Mobberley in the County of Cheshire, to life peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and thus a member of the House of Lords , which he was until his death belonged to. Between 1990 and 1997 he also served as a judge at the Court of Appeal responsible for the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey .

From Carlisle's marriage to Sandra Joyce Des Voeux in 1959, the daughter Vanessa Lucy Carlisle was born.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Edinburgh Gazette : 22245, 1673 , November 6, 1987.

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personal data
SURNAME Carlisle, Mark, Baron Carlisle of Bucklow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, MP and peer
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1929
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 2005