Victor Garland

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Ransley Victor "Vic" Garland , KBE (born May 5, 1934 in Perth , Western Australia ) is an Australian politician of the Liberal Party of Australia (LP), diplomat and economic manager , who was a member of the House of Representatives between 1969 and 1981 and was a minister several times was. He also served as the UK High Commissioner from 1981 to 1983 .

Life

Professional career, MP and minister

Ransley Victor "Vic" Garland, son of the accountant Idris Victor Garland and his wife Doris Garland, began studying economics at the University of Western Australia (UWA) after attending the Hale School, which was founded in 1858 , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts ( BA Economics). He then worked as an auditor and began his political involvement in local politics as a member of the Claremont council . On April 19, 1969 he was for the Liberal Party of Australia (LP) for the first time a member of the House of Representatives elected and represented in this before January 1981 the in Western Australia located constituency Curtin , a stronghold of the Liberal Party in the affluent surroundings of Perth. In this constituency, he replaced the long-serving MP and Minister Paul Hasluck after he had taken over the office of Governor General of Australia on April 30, 1969 . He was also temporarily Vice President of the Liberal Party in the state of Western Australia.

On August 2, 1971 Garland took over as Minister for Supply (Minister for Supply) in the McMahon government, his first ministerial office and held this until December 5, 1972, after the coalition of Liberal Party and Country Party previously in the elections on December 2 1972 lost to the Australian Labor Party (ALP). At the same time he acted between March 21 and December 5, 1972 as Assistant Minister in the Treasury (Minister assisting the Treasurer) . In 1973 he was Parliamentary Adviser to the Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City .

Opposition and return of the Liberal Party to government

Then Garland was from June 1974 to March 1975 Parliamentary General Manager (Chief Whip ) of the opposition faction of the Liberal Party in the House. In the general election on December 13, 1975 , the Australian Labor Party (ALP) suffered a clear defeat. The Liberal Party received 68 of the 127 seats, the National Country Party NCP 22 and Labor 36. In the Senate Labor and the LP each had 27 of the 60 senators, the NCP won 7 seats. In the subsequently formed government Fraser II , a coalition of LP and NCP, he served between 22 December 1975 and 6 February 1976, first as Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (Minister for Post and Telecommunications) , a post which the previous Replaced the post of postmaster general. At the same time he acted from December 22, 1975 to February 6, 1976 again as Assistant Minister in the Treasury. He resigned from these ministerial posts after accused of guilty of electoral crimes. However, the charges were dismissed by the Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), the capital city of Canberra . In the meantime, he was first backbencher (Backbencher) and then from 1976 to 1977 Chairman of the issue committee of the House of Representatives (House of Representatives Expenditure Committee) .

In the course of a cabinet reshuffle, Vic Garland took on the post of Minister for Veterans' Affairs from September 6 to December 20, 1977 and also held this post between December 20, 1977 and July 4, 1978 Government of Fraser III . At the same time he acted from December 20, 1977 to December 8, 1979 as Minister for Special Trade Representations and subsequently, after a new cabinet reshuffle, from December 8, 1979 to November 3, 1980 both as Minister for Trade and Industry Consumer (Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs) and in personal union as Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (Minister Assisting the Minister for Industry and Commerce) . After the parliamentary elections on October 18, 1980 , he resigned from the House of Representatives on January 22, 1981.

UK High Commissioner and Economic Manager

Victor Garland instead succeeded James Plimsoll as High Commissioner in the United Kingdom and remained in this top diplomatic post until 1983, when Alfred Parsons succeeded him there. For his many years of service, he was beaten on December 31, 1981 to Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE), so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir".

He then stayed in London and in the following years was a board member and board member of more than 30 UK and US based companies such as Prudential plc , The Throgmorton Trust plc , Nelson Hurst plc , Signet Group plc , Mitchell Cotts plc , Fidelity Asian Values ​​plc and The Ark Funds Incorporated . He also served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of South Bank and the Royal Festival Hall there for 15 years . In July 2007 he returned to Australia. His marriage to Lynette May Jamieson in 1960 had three children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knights and Dames in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
personal data
SURNAME Garland, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garland, Ransley Victor (full name); Vic (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian politician, diplomat and business manager
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Perth , Western Australia