Robin Hodgson, Baron Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

Robin Hodgson, Baron Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

Robin Granville Hodgson, Baron Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE (born April 25, 1942 ) is a British economic manager and politician of the Conservative Party , who was part of the House of Commons and has been a Life Peer member of the House of Lords since 2000 .

Life

Manager and MP

After attending school, Hodgson did military service in the 4th  Battalion of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry of the British Army from 1960 to 1964 and was last promoted to lieutenant . He then took up activities in the private sector and between 1972 and 2003 was Chairman of the Board of Management and at times Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the investment bank Granville Baird Group.

After he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the lower house in the constituency elections on February 28 and October 10, 1974 for the Conservative Party in the constituency of Walsall North , he was elected to the constituency in a by-election on November 4, 1974 House of Commons and was a member until the election on May 3, 1979 .

In 1979, after leaving the House of Commons, he became chairman of the board of the Nasdim company and held this position until 1985, before he was director of the securities and investment authorities between 1985 and 1989. At the same time he was a member of the Council for the Security Industry from 1980 to 1985.

He also took positions within the Conservative Party true, and was among others from 1985 to 1991 until Treasurer and then to 1994, chairman of the conservative Tories in the region West Midlands . He also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Union of Conservative Associations from 1988 to 1998 and as a member of the West Midlands Industrial Development Authority from 1988 to 1996. During this time, Hodgson, who became Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1992, was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Walter Alexander plc from 1990 to 1992 , Director of the Securities and Futures Authority from 1991 to 2002, and from 1992 to 2002 Director of Dominic Hunter plc.

At the political level he was Vice-President between 1995 and 1996 and then Chairman of the National Union of Conservative Associations from 1996 to 1998, before he was both Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chairman of the National Assembly of the Tories ( National Conservative Convention ) was.

House of Lords

Hodgson, who was the director of Community Hospital plc between 1995 and 2001 and has been the director of the Staffordshire Building Society since 1995, was named a Life Peer by Letters patent June 7, 2000, entitled Baron Hodgson of Astley Abbotts , of Nash in the County of Shropshire, raised to the nobility . Shortly thereafter took place on 28 June 2000 its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords .

He subsequently became a trustee of the Shrewsbury School Foundation and St Peter's College at the University of Oxford and is also a member of the Livery Company of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. Lord Hodgson has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Rostrum Group since 2000 and of the Nova Capital Group since 2002 as well as a member of the Board of Directors of Marston plc, the former Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries plc, since 2002.

In the House of Lords, Lord Hodgson took on numerous leadership roles within the Tory faction , and was from 2002 to 2006 spokesman for the opposition for home affairs and economic affairs and a member of his party's shadow cabinet .

He then served as Chairman of the National Council for Voluntary Organization between 2007 and 2012 and has been Chairman of the Armed Forces Charities Advisory Committee since 2008 . In the meantime, from 2001 to 2012, he was also the official assessor for the Charities Act .

Web links

• Entry on the Parliament's homepage (accessed November 7, 2012)
• Robin Hodgson at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 7, 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 7, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed November 7, 2012)