Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris

Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris (born February 12, 1938 in Cardiff - † May 1, 2018 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party and later the Labor Party . He represented the constituency of Leominster in the House of Commons for 27 years and was a member of the House of Lords since 2001 .

Life

Lawyer and Member of the House of Commons

After visiting the Malvern College Temple-Morris, son started a lawyer , a degree in law at St Catharine's College of the University of Cambridge , where in 1958 a Bachelor acquired (BA Laws). During his further studies he was in 1961 Chairman of the Conservative Association of University of Cambridge, and received in 1962 his legal admission as a barrister at the Bar Association of the Inner Temple . He then worked as a lawyer until 1989.

In the mid-1960s, he began to become increasingly involved in the Conservative Party and applied for a mandate unsuccessfully for them in the general election on October 15, 1964 and March 31, 1966 in the Newport constituency and in the general election on June 18, 1970 in the lower house. During this time, between 1968 and 1971, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Conservative Lawyers for the first time .

In the general election on February 28, 1974 , Temple-Morris was finally elected to the House of Commons for the Conservative Tories and represented the Leominister constituency until June 7, 2001 . After he resigned from the Conservative Party on November 21, 1997, he initially remained as a non-party in the House of Commons before becoming a member of the Labor Party on June 21, 1998, which he represented until he left the House of Commons.

Part-time functions

During his long membership in the House of Commons was Temple-Morris, the constant internal political Working Group of the 1975-1980 Chairman of think tank Bow Group was 1977-1997 member of the British executive in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and 1982 to 1985 also its chairman. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Malvern College from 1978 to 2002.

In 1979 he was briefly Parliamentary Private Secretary to Transport Minister Norman Fowler and then in both 1980 and 1984 a member of the parliamentary delegation to the United Nations . He was also involved between 1985 and 1993 as Vice-Chairman of the British- Soviet Society and from 1987 to 2005 as Honorary Vice-President of the British UN Association.

Temple-Morris, who had been Chevalier du Tastevin since 1988 , was again a member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Conservative Lawyers between 1990 and 1997 and was most recently its chairman from 1995 to 1997. Between 1990 and 1997 he was a founding vice- chairman of the British- Irish Parliamentary Body and was a member of that body until 2005. He was also chairman of the House of Lords and Lower House Solicitors from 1992 to 1997, and served as vice-chair of the British Center for Russia and Eastern Europe from 1993 to 1998 .

In addition, Temple-Morris took over the function of executive member of the Parliamentary Association of the Commonwealth of Nations between 1994 and 1998 and was its vice-chairman in 1996. At the same time he served as President of the Iranian Society from 1995 to 2009 and as a member of the Advisory Board of the British Institute for Persian Studies from 1997 to 2009 .

Member of the House of Lords

Temple-Morris, who, since 1999, a member of the Wine Brotherhood Jurade De St Emilion was, was after his retirement from the House of Commons in 2001 as a life peer with the title Baron Temple-Morris, of Llandaff in the County of South Glamorgan and of Leominister in the County of Herefordshire raised to the nobility and was thus a member of the House of Lords .

In addition, he was Chairman of the British-Iranian Chamber of Commerce from 2002 to 2004 and President of St Catharine's College within the Cambridge Society in 2004. He has also served as a committee member of the prestigious Reform Club since 2007 and was a member of the Lord Chancellor's advisory staff for national records and archives between 2008 and 2009 .

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on July 2, 2012)
• Peter Temple-Morris at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 2, 2012)