Thomas Hewlett, Baron Hewlett

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Thomas Clyde Hewlett, Baron Hewlett Kt CBE ( August 4, 1923 , † July 2, 1979 in Congleton , Cheshire ) was a British economic manager , entrepreneur and politician of the Conservative Party , who was named a Life Peer Member of the 1972 Life Peerages Act 1958 House of Lords was.

Life

Hewlett was the son of the politician Thomas Henry Hewlett , who was a member of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons between 1940 and 1945 . After attending school, he studied at the University of Cambridge and was able to prevail in the election of President of the Cambridge Union in 1948 against the future Labor Party politician , Peter Shore . He later worked as an economic manager and entrepreneur and was Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the Anchor Chemical Company and Borg Warner Chemicals UK Ltd.

For his many years of service as a politician, manager and entrepreneur, but also for social institutions such as the Swettenham Meadows Nature Reserve in Cheshire , he was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire on June 13, 1959 and Knight on June 13, 1964 Bachelor beaten, so that he then carried the suffix "Sir". Like his father, Hewlett was also involved in the Conservative Party and had been chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Union of the Conservative Party since 1965.

By a letters patent from April 26, 1972, Hewlett was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Hewlett , of Swettenham in the County of Derbyshire, in the nobility and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death. His official introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords took place on June 8, 1972 with the assistance of Eric Edwards, Baron Chelmer and Arthur Vere Harvey, Baron Harvey of Prestbury . On July 2, 1979, he was found dead in his Congleton home, with unknown circumstances.

His older brother was the actor Donald Hewlett , who has worked in television series such as Simon Templar and Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 41727, HMSO, London, June 13, 1959, p. 3707 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43343, HMSO, London, June 13, 1964, p. 4938 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 43390, HMSO, London, July 24, 1964, p. 6313 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  4. ↑ National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations (NUA), 1959-81 (Conservative Party Archives: Chairman's Office, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford)
  5. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 45634, HMSO, London, March 30, 1972, p. 3881 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  6. ↑ Edinburgh Gazette . No. 19092, HMSO, Edinburgh, May 1, 1972, p. 381 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  7. ↑ London Gazette . No. 45660, HMSO, London, May 1, 1972, p. 5193 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  8. ^ Entry in Hansard dated June 8, 1972
personal data
SURNAME Hewlett, Thomas, Baron Hewlett
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hewlett, Thomas Clyde, Baron Hewlett (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1923
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 1979
Place of death Congleton , Cheshire