Tim Boswell, Baron Boswell of Aynho

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Tim Boswell, Baron Boswell of Aynho

Timothy Eric "Tim" Boswell, Baron Boswell of Aynho (born December 2, 1942 in Brentwood , Essex ) is a British politician ( Conservative Party ). From 1987 until the 2010 general election , he was an MP for the constituency of Daventry and has been a member of the House of Lords since 2010 .

life and career

Boswell, son of a farmer, attended Marlborough College and New College , where he received a degree in Classical Studies and a Diploma in Agricultural Economics .

In 1966 he joined the Conservative Research Department and was head of the economic department there in 1974 (according to Debretts from 1970 to 1973, agricultural and economic advisor from 1966 to 1973). He stood in the February 1974 general election in the Rugby constituency , but lost with 6,154 votes difference to William Price ( Labor Party ). After the death of his father, he took over his work in agriculture.

1976, he became Treasurer ( Treasurer of) Daventry Conservative Association elected and was its chairman from 1979 to 1983 ( Chairman ). In 1984 he became political advisor to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Michael Jopling for two years.

Membership in the House of Commons

After he had run unsuccessfully for the rugby constituency in the February 1974 general election, he was selected to run in the Daventry constituency after the incumbent Conservative MP and former Labor Cabinet Minister Reg Prentice announced his retirement. Boswell became the Conservative MP for Daventry in the 1987 general election with a majority of 19,690 votes and held him in subsequent elections with a comparable majority. He began his parliamentary career in 1987 as a member of the Agriculture Select Committee (until 1989). From 1988 to 1990 he was Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Parliamentary Charity Law Reform Panel . From 1989 to 1990 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury , Peter Lilley . In 1990 he became a member of the government of John Major as Assistant Government Whip , after the 1992 general election he was promoted within the Whip's Office and became Lord Commissioner to the Treasury .

In December 1992, Boswell was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State ( Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State ) Ministry of Education ( Department of Education appointed) and moved to the same position at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, to the deselection of the Major government in the House of Commons 1997 election .

In the opposition, Boswell was spokesman for the Treasury shortly after the 1997 election and later became spokesman for trade and industry under William Hague before moving to education and work in 1999 until the 2001 general election . Under the leadership of Iain Duncan Smith , briefly became constitutional spokesman under Michael Howard in 2003 and returned to work and pensions in 2004, where he stayed after the 2005 general election .

On March 31, 2006, Boswell announced his intention not to run in the next general election unless it took place earlier than expected. In the 2010 general election , the Daventry constituency was split into two parts.

From 2007 to 2010 he belonged to the Special Committee ( Select Committee ) Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills / Science and Technology at. Since 2007 he has been a member of the British delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . In May 2009 he was named by the British daily Telegraph as one of the "saints" in the expense scandal. After retiring from the House of Commons, the seat remained Conservative under Chris Heaton-Harris .

Membership in the House of Lords

Boswell was named a Life Peer as Baron Boswell of Aynho , of Aynho in the County of Northamptonshire on July 8, 2010 . Its official introduction to the House of Lords took place on July 19, 2010 with the assistance of Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville and Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech . He gave his inaugural address on October 27, 2010. He cites agriculture, finance, the EU , education and equality as topics of political interest . He names the states of Europe as states of interest .

Boswell is regularly present on meeting days.

Other offices

In 1983 he was Chairman of the Northants Leicesters and Rutland Counties Branch NFU . From 1966 to 1990 he was a member of the Council of the Perry Foundation for Agricultural Research , from 1984 to 1990 he was President there.

Boswell was a member of the Agriculture and Food Research Council from 1988 to 1990 . He has been Deputy Lieutenant of Northamptonshire since 2010 . He has been an Independent Governor of the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff since 2007. He is the Director of the Foundation for Management Education . Boswell is the governor of the Tudor Hall School . He is Chair of the Victoria County History Trust for Northamptonshire and the Friends of Torres Vedras . When Conservative and Unionist Agents' Superannuation Fund and the Peterborough Cathedral Development and Preservation Trust , he is a member of the Trusteeship Council ( trustee ). As patron ( saint ), he is at Daventry and South Northants Home-Start active. He is Vice President of the National Energy Action Advisory Group and the County Trust .

He also held a few other positions in his party. From 2007 to 2010 he was a member of the Executive 1922 Committee . From 2009 to 2010 he was Acting Chairman of the Milton Keynes Conservatives .

family

Boswell is married to Helen Delahay Rees. The couple has three daughters. In Boswell's constituency are Silverstone , the home of the British Grand Prix , Althorp , where Diana Spencer and her brother Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer lived as children, and Thenford , the village where Michael Heseltine's villa is located.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Tim Boswell Entry on BBC News from February 15, 2005
  2. ^ Tim Boswell: Electoral history and profile ( Memento April 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Profile at the Guardian , accessed April 17, 2012
  3. ↑ MPs' expenses: The saints (Part iii) article of the Telegraph , accessed April 17, 2012
  4. ↑ 19 July 2010: Column 841 minutes of the meeting on the website of the House of Lords from 19 July 2010
  5. ↑ House of Lords: Members 'expenses Members' expenses on the House of Lords website , accessed April 16, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Boswell, Tim, Baron Boswell of Aynho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boswell, Timothy Eric, Baron Boswell of Aynho (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Brentwood , Essex