Patrick Cormack, Baron Cormack

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Patrick Cormack, Baron Cormack

Patrick Thomas Cormack, Baron Cormack DL (born May 18, 1939 in Grimsby ) is a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for almost 40 years and has been a life peer member of the House of Lords since 2010 .

Life

Studies, teachers and unsuccessful lower house candidates

After attending St. James's Choir School and the Havelock School, Cormack completed a degree in history at the University of Hull , graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and then worked as a teacher at St. James's Choir School on. During this time he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Historical Association from 1963 to 1966.

As early as the general election on October 15, 1964 , at the age of 25, he applied for the conservative Tories in the Bolsover constituency for the first time for a mandate in the House of Commons, but missed entry into parliament. His second candidacy in the elections of March 31, 1966 in the constituency of Grimsby was unsuccessful.

After his second electoral defeat, he became Head of Education at Ross Ltd in 1966 and moved to Wrekin College in Wellington as Assistant Principal in 1967 , before becoming Head of History at Brewood Grammar School between 1969 and 1970 .

Member of the House of Commons

Cormack was elected as a candidate for the Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons in the general election of June 18, 1970 and initially represented the constituency of Cannock , then since the election of February 28, 1974 the constituency of Staffordshire South West and most recently since the general election on June 9, 1983, the constituency of Staffordshire South . In the general election on May 6, 2010 , he decided not to run again after almost 40 years of membership in parliament and left the House of Commons.

Shortly after his first election to the House of Commons, he became the Private Parliamentary Secretary of Parliamentary Secretaries in the Ministry of Health and Social Security in 1970 and held this office until 1973. Cormack, who was a member of the House of Commons Committee on Church Affairs between 1970 and 2010, was involved between 1974 and 1997 as founder and chairman of the historical association Heritage in Danger and between 1979 and 1984 as a member of the council for historical buildings.

He was also chairman of the Council for Independent Education between 1980 and 1995 and chairman of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in the National Archives from 1981 to 2004 .

In 1982 Cormack became a member of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Public Deeds and was a member of that body until 1987. From 1987 to 2001 he was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Lord Chancellor for Housing and Labor, from 1992 to 2000 during the Yugoslav Wars he was a member of the Council for Peace in the Balkans and from 1995 to 2005 he was also a member of the General Synod of the Church of England .

Unsuccessful candidacies as speaker of the lower house and member of the upper house

In the late 1990s, Cormack took on numerous leadership roles within the Conservative Party faction and was Deputy Leader of the House of Lords in the shadow cabinet of his party between 1997 and 2000 as well as spokesman for the opposition for constitutional affairs. He was also a member of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee for the Modernization of the House of Commons from 1997 to 1998 and was also a member of the Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privileges between 1997 and 2000 and of the Executive Committee of the British Parliamentary Society of the Commonwealth of 1997 to 1999 Nations ( Commonwealth Parliamentary Association , CPA).

In 2000, Cormack, who was one of the vice-chairs of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association between 1999 and 2000 , its treasurer from 2000 to 2003 and governor of the English-Speaking Union (ESU) from 1999 to 2006, ran for the first time after Betty Boothroyd's resignation Office of Speaker of the House of Commons. However, he was defeated by the Scottish MP of the Labor Party , Michael Martin , who then became Speaker of the House of Commons .

In 2001 he was a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights for a period and was also a member of the Lower House Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2001 to 2003, the Lower House Committee on Professional Ethics from 2001 to 2010 and the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Unification of Bills from 2001 to 2009.

Cormack, who served on the House of Commons Commission from 2002 to 2005, served as the House of Commons Chairman for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2010 , while also serving on the House of Commons Cooperation Committee.

After Michael Martin had to resign on June 21, 2009 because of the affair of MPs' expense reports, Cormack reapplied for the office of Speaker of the House of Commons. In the first ballot on June 22, 2009, however, he received only 13 votes and took ninth place among the ten candidates. His party friend John Bercow was elected as Speaker of the House of Commons in the third ballot .

After leaving the House of Commons, Cormack was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated December 18, 2010 as a life peer entitled Baron Cormack , of Enville in the County of Staffordshire . Shortly after its introduction was carried out ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords .

Lord Cormack has also been Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire since 2011 .

On June 8, 2016, Lord Cormack applied unsuccessfully for the office of Lord Speaker , the election won by Lord Fowler .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lord Speaker election: result. (pdf) House of Lords, June 13, 2016, accessed September 5, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Cormack, Patrick, Baron Cormack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cormack, Patrick, Baron Cormack (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Grimsby