Michael Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead

Michael Norman Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead Kt DL (born October 9, 1920 ) is a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for 30 years and has been a life peer member of the House of Lords since 1994 .

Life

After attending Sedbergh School , Shaw worked as an accountant and became both a member of the Livery Company of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

In a by-election in the constituency of Brighouse and Spenborough Shaw was the 1953 Peace Judge ( Justice of Peace ) in Dewsbury was appointed, elected on 17 March 1960 as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time MPs in the House of Commons, that constituency but lost already in the general election on October 15, 1964 . During this time he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Labor and National Services, John Hare, from 1962 to 1963 .

In the general election of March 31, 1966 , he was again elected a member of the House of Commons, and initially represented the constituency of Scarborough and Whitby and then from the general election on February 28, 1974 to the election of April 9, 1992, the constituency of Scarborough . During this time Shaw was between 1970 and 1973 Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Davies , who between October 1970 and November 1972 was first Minister for Trade and Industry and then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster .

Shaw, who was also a member of the British delegation to the European Parliament between 1974 and 1979 , was knighted Deputy Lieutenant of West Yorkshire in 1977 and Knight Bachelor in 1982 , so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir".

By a letters patent dated September 30, 1994 Shaw was raised to life peer as Baron Shaw of Northstead , of Liversedge in the County of West Yorkshire. Shortly thereafter, he was introduced as a member of the House of Lords . On March 31, 2015, Shaw voluntarily retired and left the House of Lords under the rules of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on October 30, 2012)
• Mr Michael Shaw at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed October 30, 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed October 30, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed October 30, 2012)