Richard Newby, Baron Newby
Richard "Dick" Mark Newby, Baron Newby OBE (born February 14, 1953 ) is a British civil servant, economic manager and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Liberal Democrats , who has been a member of the House of Lords since 1997 .
Life
Administrative officer, party official and economic manager
Newby graduated after attending the Rodillian School studying the combination of subjects Philosophy, Politic and Economics at St Catherine's College of the University of Oxford , which he in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts graduated (BA). He began his professional career as an administrative officer in 1974 with the Royal Administration for Customs and Excise ( HM Customs and Excise ), where he was the private secretary of the First Secretary from 1977 to 1979, before he was last head of the planning unit from 1979 to 1981. In the meantime, he completed postgraduate studies , which he completed with a Master of Arts (MA).
In 1981, Newby left the administrative service and served instead between 1981 and 1988 as National Secretary of the Social Democratic Party, which was founded by former Labor Party politicians Roy Jenkins , David Owen , Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams . After the dissolution of the SDP in 1988, he moved into the private sector and until 1992 was director of corporate affairs at Rosehaugh plc , a property development company in the City of London and Docklands . Because of his services there, he was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1990.
He was then Director of Matrix Communications Consultancy Ltd between 1992 and 1999 and Chairman of the Board of Reform Publications Ltd from 1993 to 2008 . During this time he was involved with the Liberal Democrats and was director of external communications for their campaign team for the general election on May 1, 1997 from 1996 to 1997 .
House of Lords
Newby was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated September 25, 1997 as a life peer entitled Baron Newby , of Rothwell in the County of West Yorkshire . On 15 October 1997 its introduction (followed Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords .
As such, he was from 1997 to 2010 spokesman for the Group of the Liberal Democrats for the Treasury as from 1999 to 2006 chief of staff to Charles Kennedy , who was party leader of the Liberal Democrats at the time.
Lord Newby also served as Director of the Flagship Group from 1999 to 2001 and has been Chairman of Live Consulting since 2001 and Chairman of Live Sport CIC since 2010 . In addition, he has been co-chairman of the Liberal Democrats' Finance Committee since 2010 and is also a trustee of the Coltstaple Trust and chairman of the International Development through Sport (IDS) organization.
On 3 May 2012, he was the successor to Lord Shutt of Greetland as Deputy Parliamentary Secretary ( Deputy Chief Whip ) of the Liberal Democrats in the House and as such carries the title of Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard .
Web links
- Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on July 29, 2012)
- Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 29, 2012)
- Biography in Debrett’s (accessed on July 29, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Introduction of Lord Newby (Hansard, October 15, 1997)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Newby, Richard, Baron Newby |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Newby, Richard Mark, Baron Newby (full name); Dick Newby (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British civil servant, manager and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1953 |