Nigel Vinson, Baron Vinson

Nigel Vinson, Baron Vinson , LVO , DL (* 27. January 1931 ) is a British entrepreneur , business leaders and politicians of the Conservative Party , which since 1985 member of the House of Lords is.

Life

Entrepreneurs and managers in the private sector

After attending Pangbourne Nautical College , Vinson joined the Queen's Royal Regiment in West Surrey as a soldier in 1948 and was promoted to lieutenant when he was released in 1950 .

In 1952 he founded a small company in the plastics and plastics industry in Guildford , which had 1,000 employees in 1969 and which received the Queen's Award for Industry in 1971. In the following years he was involved in numerous professional associations and organizations and was a member of the Crafts Advisory Committee between 1971 and 1977 and of the Design Council from 1973 to 1980. He was also a board member of BAA Limited between 1973 and 1980 and was one of the co-founders of the think tank Center for Policy Studies (CPS) in June 1974 , for which he worked until 1980.

Within the British employers' association Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Vinson is since 1975 a member of the Grand Council and was the Council of the CBI for small businesses from 1979 to 1983 also a member of the Presidential Council, and from 1979 to 1984 and vice chairman. He also served as President of the Industrial Participation Association from 1979 to 1990 and as Chairman of the Rural Development Commission between 1980 and 1990 . He was also a board member of Barclays from 1982 to 1987 .

For his services he was named Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order in 1979 .

House of Lords

On January 1, 1985, he was raised to the nobility by a letters patent as a life peer entitled Baron Vinson , of Roddam Dene in the County of Northumberland . On February 7, 1985 followed his introduction as a member of the House of Lords .

Lord Vinson, the 1990 Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Northumberland has been since 1991 a member of the Foundation for Science and Technology . Between 2000 and 2005 he was President of the Berwick-upon-Tweed Conservative Party . In addition, he has been a trustee of the think tank Institute for the Study of Civil Society (CIVITAS) since 2003 .

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on 9 July 2012)
• Mr Nigel Vinson at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 9, 2012)
• Homepage of the Conservative Party (Page call on July 9, 2012)