Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie

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Peter Lovat Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie PC QC ( May 29, 1945 - June 22, 2013 ) was a British lawyer and politician of the Conservative Party who was a Member of the House of Commons and Solicitor General of Scotland for several years and since 1989 as a life peer member of the House of Lords .

Life

Member of the House of Commons and Solicitor General for Scotland

After visiting the Loretto School graduated Fraser studying law at Gonville and Caius College of the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh . After completing his studies, he took up a position as a litigator ( advocate ) in 1969 . In addition to this activity, he was lecturer for constitutional law at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh between 1972 and 1974 and ran for a seat in the House of Commons in the general election on October 10, 1974 in the constituency of Aberdeen North without success . In 1976 he was chairman of the Scottish Conservative Lawyers Reform Group for some time .

After serving as Junior Junior Legal Advisor for Scotland in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for a short period in 1979, he was first elected to the House of Commons for the Conservative Tories in the elections on May 3, 1979 , initially representing the constituency of Angus South and the Connection since the elections of June 9, 1983 to the elections on June 11, 1987, the constituency of Angus East .

In 1981 he took over his first government office and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Scotland, George Younger , until 1982 . He was subsequently appointed Crown Attorney in 1982 and as such was Solicitor General for Scotland until 1989. Fraser, in 1985 a visiting professor of law at the University of Dundee was in 1989 an honorary member of the Bar Association of Lincoln's Inn .

Member of the House of Lords, Junior Minister and positions in the private sector

By a letters patent dated February 10, 1989, Fraser, who also became Privy Councilor in 1989, was raised to the nobility as a life peer with the title Baron Fraser of Carmyllie , of Carmyllie in the District of Angus . Shortly after its introduction was carried out ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords .

In the following years he continued to take over government offices and was initially Lord Advocate and thus Attorney General of Scotland between 1989 and 1992 . Subsequently, he was first Minister of State in the Department of Scotland and then from 1995 to 1997 Minister of State in the Department of Trade and Industry.

After the Conservative Party's defeat in the lower house elections on May 1, 1997 and the end of Prime Minister John Major's term in office , Lord Fraser took on a number of functions in the opposition Tory faction and was both Deputy Leader of the House of Lords in the Conservative's shadow cabinet between 1997 and 1998 Party as well as spokesman for the opposition for constitutional issues as well as for trade and industry.

At the same time, he took on numerous positions in the private sector and had been chairman of the supervisory board of JKX Oil & Gas plc since 1997 and was also a member of the supervisory board of ICE Future since 1997 and of Total Exploration & Production UK Ltd since 2000 . Furthermore, he was since 1997 director of the London Metal Exchange London Metal Exchange and since 1998 CEO of Holyrood Strategy and 2000 also chairman of the bylaws committee of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society . In addition, Lord Fraser served as Honorary President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators from 2001 to 2005.

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SURNAME Fraser, Peter, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fraser, Peter, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, of Carmyllie in the District of Angus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1945
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2013