Spencer Le Marchant

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Sir Spencer Le Marchant (born January 15, 1931 in Edmonton , London , today: London Borough of Enfield , † September 7, 1986 on the Isle of Wight ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons between 1970 and 1983 ( House of Commons ) was.

Life

Spencer Le Marchant was the eldest of three children of Alfred Gaspard Le Marchant and his wife Turdis Mortensen and a paternal grandson of Brigadier General Edward Thomas Le Marchant, 4th Baronet. After attending the prestigious Eton College he performed military service in the line infantry regiment Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) and was effective January 24, 1950 to lieutenant (Second Lieutenant) transported. In 1954 he became a member of the London Stock Exchange (LSE), the London Stock Exchange , and from 1961 until April 11, 1986, the stock brokers L. Messel & Company .

In the election on March 31, 1966 , Le Marchant ran for the Conservative Party in the Vauxhall constituency for a seat in the House of Commons, but with 7,645 votes (33.4 percent) was clearly defeated by the long-time constituency holder of the Labor Party , George Strauss , with 15,233 votes (66.6 percent) accounted for. In the subsequent election on June 18, 1970 , he was the conservative Tories in the constituency High Peak for the first time as a deputy of the lower house ( House of Commons ) elected and could with 19,558 votes (43.7 percent) against the previous Labor constituency owner Peter Jackson prevail, who received 18,054 votes (40.4 percent). He was re-elected with an absolute majority in the following general election and represented the constituency in order to refrain from running again in the election on June 9, 1983 . Having 1970-1974 in the Cabinet Heath as Parliamentary Private Secretary (Parliamentary Private Secretary) looked, he served from 1974 to 1979 as Parliamentary Secretary ( Whip ) the opposition Tory faction in the lower house.

After the Conservative Party's victory in the general election on May 3, 1979 , Spencer Le Marchant took over the post of Comptroller of the Royal Household in the Thatcher I cabinet on May 7, 1979 and held this office until September 30, 1981, whereupon Anthony Berry was his successor started. On February 28, 1984 he was beaten for his services to the Knight Bachelor and since then has had the suffix "Sir".

Le Marchant was married to Lucinda Gaye Leveson-Gower since May 5, 1955, daughter of Brigadier General Hugh Nugent Leveson-Gower and his first wife Avril Joy Mullens. From this marriage two daughters were born.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 39229, HMSO, London, May 15, 1951, p. 2742 ( PDF , accessed January 2, 2019, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 50497, HMSO, London, April 22, 1986, p. 5558 ( PDF , accessed January 2, 2019, English).
  3. ↑ Controller of the Household ( Hansard )
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 47839, HMSO, London, May 11, 1979, p. 6159 ( PDF , accessed January 2, 2019, English).
  5. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES (leighrayment.com)
  6. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 49583, HMSO, London, December 30, 1983, p. 2 ( PDF , accessed January 2, 2019, English).
  7. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 49696, HMSO, London, April 2, 1984, p. 4829 ( PDF , accessed January 2, 2019, English).
personal data
SURNAME Le Marchant, Spencer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Edmonton , London , today: London Borough of Enfield
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1986
Place of death Isle of Wight