Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry

Ronald Timothy "Tim" Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry PC DL (* 28. May 1932 ) is a British business leaders and politicians of the Conservative Party , who for 23 years member of the House of Commons was, and from 1997 to 2016 as a Life Peer Member of the House of Lords .

Life

Member of the House of Commons and Minister

After visiting the Eton College graduated from Renton to study Historical Sciences at Magdalen College of the University of Oxford , where he graduated with honors. He then worked as an economic manager and, among other things, was director of Silvermines Ltd from 1967 to 1984 and, at the same time, director of the ANZ Banking Group between 1968 and 1975 and temporarily managing director of Tennant Trading .

His political career began when he ran as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the general election on June 18, 1970 in Sheffield Park constituency , although unsuccessfully, for the House of Commons. In the elections on February 28, 1974 Renton was then elected as a member of the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency of Sussex Mid for more than 23 years until the May 1, 1997 elections .

In 1979 Renton, who was temporarily chairman of the employment committee of the Conservative Tories , took over his first government office and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Biffen , then Chief Secretary to the Treasury , until 1981 . After serving as Vice-President from 1978 to 1980, he served as President of the Conservative Trade Union Federation between 1980 and 1984 and from 1983 to 1984 Parliamentary Private Secretary to Geoffrey Howe , who was then Chancellor of the Exchequer and then Foreign Minister .

Subsequently, under Howe, he was first Parliamentary Undersecretary in 1984 and then between 1984 and 1987 Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Affairs of the Commonwealth . During this time he was also a member of the advisory board of the British Broadcasting Corporation from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the board of directors of the Roedean School from 1982 to 1997 and chairman of the organization of the Conservative Party for Foreign Affairs and the Commonwealth of Nations between 1983 and 1984.

In 1987 he moved to the Ministry of the Interior ( Home Office ), where he was Minister of State until 1989, before he was Government Chief Whip First Parliamentary Secretary of the parliamentary group of the ruling Conservative Party from 1989 to 1990 .

In 1990 he became Minister of State for the Arts and held this post until 1992. At the same time, he was chairman of the Parliamentary Group for Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997 and from 1992 to 2000 a member of the Advisory Committee on Support for Central and Eastern Europe in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which covers the countries in Russia , Central and Eastern Europe should advise with knowledge and assistance in solving problems.

Furthermore acted Renton, who in 1992, along with Mick Jagger founding president of the National Music Day was, from 1992 to 1998 as Vice-Chairman of the British Council and also from 1992 to 1997 parliamentary adviser to the company Robert Fleming & Co , where he between 1992 and 1999 was also a director of Fleming Continental Euro Investment Trust plc . Renton also served as a member of the Parnham Trust Development Council from 1992 to 2000 and as a member of the Criterion Theater Trust between 1992 and 2001.

Most recently he was a member of the House of Commons Committee on National Heritage during his tenure in the House of Commons from 1995 to 1997.

House of Lords

After leaving the House of Commons, Renton was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated June 9, 1997 as a life peer with the title Baron of Mount Harry , of Offham in the County of East Sussex . Shortly after its introduction was carried out ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords .

At the beginning of his membership in the House of Lords, he was a member from 1997 to 2001 and then chairman of the House of Lords subcommittee for Europe between 2002 and 2006. Since 2007 Lord Renton has chaired the House of Lords Information Committee. On April 14, 2016, he retired under the provisions of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 and left the House of Lords.

At the same time he was chairman of the board of directors of the Roedean School from 1998 to 2005 and chairman of Fleming Continental Euro Investment Trust plc from 1999 to 2003 . He has also served on the University of Sussex Council since 2000 and President of the Brighton College Council since 2007 .

Since 2004, Lord Renton Deputy Lieutenant is the county East Sussex .

Publications

• The Dangerous Edge (1994)
• Hostage to Fortune (1997)
• Chief Whip (2004)

Web links

• Entry on the Parliament's homepage (accessed on October 27, 2012)
• Timothy Renton at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed October 27, 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed October 27, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett’s (accessed on October 27, 2012)