Richard Spring, Baron Risby

Richard Spring, Baron Risby

Richard John Grenville Spring, Baron Risby (born September 24, 1946 in Cape Town ) is a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for 18 years and has been a life peer member of the House of Lords since 2010 .

Life

Member of the House of Commons

After attending Rondebosch Boys' High School , he studied at the University of Cape Town and Magdalen College at the University of Oxford and then worked as a journalist and business manager. Most recently, he was vice president of financial services company Merrill Lynch .

Spring, who held various functions within the Conservative Party in Westminster between 1976 and 1987 , ran for the first time for a seat in the House of Commons in the general election on June 9, 1983 for the Conservative Party in the constituency of Ashton-Under-Lyne , but suffered a defeat . In 1990 he was chairman of the Conservative Party in Westminster. In the elections of April 9, 1992 , he was elected a member of the House of Commons and initially represented the constituency of Bury St. Edmunds and most recently since the general election on May 1, 1997, the constituency of West Suffolk . In the lower house elections on May 6, 2010 , he decided not to run again and left the lower house.

In 1994 Spring, who was vice-chairman of the Industrial Fund of the Conservative Tories between 1993 and 1996 , took over his first government office and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Patrick Mayhew , then Minister for Northern Ireland , until 1995 . He was then first Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Trade and Industry, Timothy Eggar , and then from 1996 to 1997 by Nicholas Soames and James Arbuthnot , who were ministers of state in the Ministry of Defense .

During this time he was a member of the House of Commons Committee for Northern Ireland from 1995 to 1997 and was also a member of the Committee on Health between 1996 and 1997 and the Committee on Deregulation in 1997.

Opposition politician and member of the House of Lords

After the electoral defeat of the Tories in the general election on May 1, 1997, Spring took on leading positions in the opposition and was initially spokesman for the Conservative Party parliamentary group for culture, media and sport and then between 2000 and 2004 opposition spokesman for foreign affairs, before leaving 2004 to 2005 shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in the shadow cabinet of his party. He was then vice-chairman of the Conservative Party group from 2005 to 2010 and a member of the House Committee on Internal Affairs between 2006 and 2007.

After leaving the House of Commons, Spring was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated December 24, 2010 as a life peer entitled Baron Risby , of Haverhill in the County of Suffolk . Shortly thereafter took place 11 January 2011 his Introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords .

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on October 28, 2012)
• Richard Spring at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed October 28, 2012)
• Richard Spring: Electoral history and profile ( Memento of April 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: The Guardian (accessed October 28, 2012)
• Profile ( BBC , accessed October 28, 2012)