Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman

Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman

Roger Norman Freeman, Baron Freeman PC (born May 27, 1942 on the Wirral Peninsula , North West England , England ) is a British Conservative Party politician who was , among other things, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster .

Life

After visiting the Whitgift School studied Freeman at Balliol College of the University of Oxford and was during this time in 1964 also president of the Conservative Association of University ( Oxford University Conservative Association ). After completing his studies, he worked as a sworn auditor at an investment bank.

After Freeman in the general election in 1979 as a candidate of the Conservative Party unsuccessfully in the constituency of Don Valley for a seat in the House of Commons was a candidate, he was in the lower house elections on May 1, 1983 first elected to the House of Representatives and represented by 1 May 1997 Constituency Kettering .

Between 1984 and 1986 he was head of the finance department in the head office of the Conservative Party and then took over a government post as “junior minister” for the first time after being appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Defense with responsibility for the armed forces. He was then Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Health from 1988 to 1990 and then Minister of State in the Ministry of Transport with responsibility for public transport , before he was Minister of State for Military Procurement in the Ministry of Defense from 1994 to 1995.

After a cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster by Prime Minister John Major in June 1995 and was Minister of Public Service until the end of Major's tenure in May 1997.

After retiring from cabinet and government following the Tories' electoral defeat in the May 1, 1997 general election , he was promoted to the nobility of Life Peer with the title of Baron Freeman , of Dingley in the County of Northamptonshire, and has been a member ever since House of Lords as a member. As such, he was a member of the board of directors of the Conservative Peers Association from 1997 to 2001, as well as his party's special advisor on candidate selection.

In addition to his political activities, Freeman held numerous positions in the private sector in defense, pharmaceutical and IT companies and was both Chairman of the Board of Thales Pension Trustees and Big DNA Ltd and a member of the boards of Thales SA France, Savile Group plc, Parity Group, Chemring Group plc and ITM Power plc. He was also Chairman of the Advisory Boards of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Thales UK, and an advisor to RP&C International Ltd and Global Energy Development plc. He was also Chairman of the Carlton Club and Trustees of Skill Force Development Ltd.

Web links

• Mr Roger Freeman at Hansard (English)