Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood
William Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood (born July 31, 1951 in Carlisle ) is a British peer and politician of the Conservative Party . He has been a member of the House of Lords since 1989 and was a member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2004 .
Inglewood is the eldest son of former Conservative House of Commons William Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood, and his wife Mary Proby. He studied at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge and was admitted to the barrister at Lincoln's Inn in 1975 . He has been married to Cressida Pemberton-Pigott since 1986, with her he has a son and two daughters.
In the general election in 1983 he ran as a Conservative candidate in the traditional Labor Party- dominated constituency of Houghton and Washington East , where he finished third with 24% of the vote.
In the European elections in 1984 he stood unsuccessfully in the constituency of Durham , in the European elections in 1989 he was elected to the European Parliament in the constituency of Cumbria and Lancashire North . He lost his seat in the 1994 European elections but was re-elected in 1999 , this time in the constituency of North West England . He did not run for the 2004 European elections .
In 1989 he inherited his father's title of nobility including the associated seat in the House of Lords . When he was first elected to the European Parliament in the same year, he also kept his seat in the House of Lords. From 1994 to 1995 he worked there as a whip , then he was junior minister in the Department for the Maintenance of Monuments and Historic Buildings (Department for National Heritage). He stayed in that office until the Conservatives lost the 1997 general election . Since 1993 he has been Deputy Lieutenant of Cumbria . With the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999 , he lost the automatic seat in the House of Lords along with all other Hereditary Peers. However, he was elected as one of 92 elected Hereditary Peers to remain in the House after the reform.
Web links
- Entry for Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood in the database of the European Parliament
- British Parliament information
- William Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| William Fletcher-Vane |
Baron Inglewood 1989 – present |
current owner of the title |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fletcher-Vane, Richard, 2nd Baron Inglewood |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fletcher-Vane, William Richard 2nd Baron Inglewood (full name); Inglewood, lord |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Conservative politician, Member of the House of Lords, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carlisle |