Robin Turton, Baron Tranmire

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Robert "Robin" Hugh Turton, Baron Tranmire PC KBE MC DL PC ( August 8, 1903 , † January 17, 1994 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for 45 years and was temporarily a minister when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 . Turton, who was the senior member of the House of Commons between 1965 and 1974, served in the UK Parliament for nearly 65 years at the time of his death .

Life

Member of the House of Commons and World War II

Turton, son of a major , graduated after visiting the Eton College to study law at Balliol College of Oxford University . He was subsequently admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Inner Temple in 1926 .

In the general election on May 30, 1929 , Turton was elected as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the constituency of Thirsk and Malton for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and belonged to this for almost 45 years until the general election on February 28, 1974 . His first election at the age of almost 26 years was due to the fact that the previous constituency owner, his distant relative Edmund Turton, had died around three weeks before the election on May 8, 1929, and the local Conservative Party association had put up the posters with the Inscription Vote for Turton! didn't want to throw away. In 1936, he was also a magistrate ( justice of the peace ).

After the outbreak of World War II , Turton began his military service in the 4th Battalion of the Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) in 1939 and was most recently assistant assistant to the adjutant general of the 50th Division . For his military services he was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in 1942 .

Junior Minister and Minister of Health

After the election victory of the conservative Tories in the general election on October 25, 1951 Turton was established in November 1951 by Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the Parliamentary Secretary ( Parliamentary Secretary ) in the Ministry of the National Insurance ( Ministry of National Insurance ) and was appointed to a ministerial reorganization of September 1953 to October 1954 Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance . In these functions he was one of the key contributors to then Minister Osbert Peake .

After finishing his work there, he served as Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between October 1954 and December 1955 , making him one of the closest advisors to the then Foreign Ministers Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan . On June 9, 1955, he was also appointed Privy Councilor .

On December 20, 1955, Turton was appointed by the new Prime Minister Anthony Eden to succeed Iain Macleod as Minister of Health in his cabinet and held this ministerial office until Prime Minister Harold Macmillan took office and was replaced by Dennis Vosper on January 16, 1957 .

Father of the House of Commons and Member of the House of Lords

Turton, who was Deputy Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1962 , was after Rab Butler's departure from the House of Commons on October 15, 1965, his successor as senior member of the House of Commons and thus Father of the House . He was also chairman of the Commonwealth Industries Association from 1963 to 1974 . In June 1967 he called for the establishment of a non-partisan commission for negotiations on Rhodesia , which was rejected by the then Prime Minister of the Labor Party , Harold Wilson , however.

During his House of Commons membership, Turton was last from June 1970 to February 1974 chairman of the Select Committee on Procedure .

Robin Turton, who was knighted on June 12, 1971 as Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) and from then on carried the suffix "Sir", spoke out against the UK joining the EC in 1973 .

After leaving the House of Commons, Turton was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated May 9, 1974 as a life peer with the title Baron Tranmire , of Upsall in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and thus belonged to the House of Lords until his death as a member. At the time of his death on January 17, 1994, he was a member of the United Kingdom Parliament for almost 65 years.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Roger Dod, Robert Phipps Dod: Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd. , 1988, p. 295
  2. ↑ Entry  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 115 kB) in The London Gazette of June 9, 1955@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thegazette.co.uk  
  3. ↑ JRT Wood: A Matter of Weeks Rather Than Months: The Impasse Between Harold Wilson and Ian Smith Sanctions, Aborted Settlements and War 1965 to 1969 , 2012, p. 327
  4. ↑ Entry  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 124 kB) in The London Gazette of June 12, 1971@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thegazette.co.uk  
  5. ↑ Entry  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 83 kB) in The London Gazette of April 5, 1974@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thegazette.co.uk  
personal data
SURNAME Turton, Robin, Baron Tranmire
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Turton, Robert Hugh, Baron Tranmire (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1903
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1994