Patrick Mayhew

Patrick Barnabas Burke Mayhew, Baron Mayhew of Twysden PC DL (born September 11, 1929 in Cookham , Berkshire - † June 25, 2016 ) was a British lawyer and politician of the Conservative Party who was both Solicitor General and Attorney General between 1992 and in 1997 served as Northern Ireland Minister in Prime Minister John Major's cabinet .

Life

Lawyer and Member of the House of Commons

After visiting the Tunbridge School studied Mayhew law at Balliol College of the University of Oxford and was after completing his military service at the 4th and 7th  Regiment of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and the lawyer's admission to the Bar of Middle Temple as a Barrister active and in 1972 the Attorney-General ( Queen's Counsel appointed). At times he was also a member of the General Council of the Allglish Bar Association .

After being introduced to the general election in 1970 without success in the constituency Camberwell-Dulwich to a seat in the House of Commons had applied, he was in the general election of 28 February 1974 first elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons and represented there until on May 1, 1997 the constituency of Royal Tunbridge Wells or since the general election of June 9, 1983, the constituency renamed Tunbridge Wells .

Promotion to Minister of Northern Ireland

In 1979 he took over his first government office as "Junior Minister" after he was appointed Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Department of Employment and was then Minister of State in the Home Office , the British Home Office , between 1981 and 1983 . In 1983 he was appointed Solicitor General and received at the same time his appointment as a Knight Bachelor as well as the addition of "Sir" to his name. He then became Attorney General in 1987 and held this office until 1992.

As part of a cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister John Major appointed him Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on April 10, 1992, succeeding Peter Brooke . This post he held until the end of Major's tenure due to the electoral defeat of the Tories in the general election from 1 May 1997 . As Northern Ireland Minister he made a determined effort to strike a balance between unionist and nationalist interests in order to resolve the Northern Ireland conflict . With a term of more than five years, Mayhew is the Northern Ireland Minister to date with the longest term since the office was created in March 1972.

Member of the House of Lords

After retiring from the House, he was in 1997 as a life peer with the title of Baron Mayhew of Twysden, of Kilndown in the County of Kent in the hereditary nobility collected and has since been the House of Lords on. During his membership there, he was a member of the executive branch of the Conservative Peers Association from 1998 to 2006 .

He has also been President of the West Kent College of Further Education since 1997 and was President of the National Fruit Show between 1999 and 2007 . He also served as Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Committee on business meetings from 1999 to 2008, and President of the Kent Boy Scouts Council from 2000 to 2009, and Chairman of the Rochester Cathedral Council from 2000 to 2007 .

In 2001 he was also appointed Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Kent and is also involved in other functions for the traditional county of Kent such as director of Support Kent Schools Ltd , a company founded in 1998 to support and promote educational standards in schools in Kent and as a Kent Ambassadors to promote the interests of the county.

On June 1, 2015, Mayhew voluntarily retired and left the House of Lords under the rules of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Former NI Secretary Lord Mayhew dies

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the British Parliament (accessed December 25, 2011)
• Sir Patrick Mayhew at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You
• Entry in They Work For You

Bibliography

• Una McGovern (Ed.): Chambers Biographical Dictionary. 7th edition. Chambers, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 1030.