Matthew Oakeshott, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay
Matthew Oakeshott, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay (born January 10, 1947 ) is a British investment manager and Liberal Democrats politician .
Life
Oakeshott graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in Political Philosophy and Economics in 1968. He then worked in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning , before studying again at Oxford from 1970 to 1972, but without achieving another degree. During this time he was a member of the Oxford City Council for the Labor Party . From 1972 to 1976 he was the parliamentary assistant to Roy Jenkins and then worked as an investment manager for various companies. In 1974 and 1983 he ran for a seat in the House of Commons , but both times without success.
On May 1, 2000 he was raised to the status of a Life Peer as Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay , of Seagrove Bay in the County of Isle of Wight , and has since sat for the Liberal Democrats in the British House of Lords . In the upper house he was the financial and economic policy spokesman for his party from 2001 to 2011 and from 2002 to 2010 also the spokesman for pensions. He resigned after speaking negatively about the government's Project Merlin (an agreement between the government and the UK banks).
Oakeshott is married and has three children.
Web links
- Mr Matthew Oakeshott at Hansard (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Profile on news.bbc.org accessed on December 7, 2012
- ↑ a b Article on telegraph.co.uk (Engl.) Accessed December 8, 2012
- ↑ Portrait on parliament.uk Accessed December 8, 2012
- ↑ London Gazette . No. 55839, HMSO, London, May 5, 2000, p. 4980 ( PDF , English).
- ↑ Portrait on referenceworks.brillonline.com (Eng.) Accessed December 8, 2012
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| SURNAME | Oakeshott, Matthew, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British manager and politician, Life Peer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1947 |