William Goodhart, Baron Goodhart

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William Howard Goodhart, Baron Goodhart Kt QC ( January 18, 1933 - January 10, 2017 ) was a liberal democratic politician and human rights advocate . He was a member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2015 .

Life

Goodhart came from a Jewish immigrant family who had risen to the British upper middle class . His father Arthur Lehman Goodhart (1891-1978) was a law professor at Oxford , one brother, Sir Philip Goodhart (1925-2015), was a member of the Conservative Party , another was the economics professor Charles Goodhart (* 1936).

Goodhart was licensed to bar in 1960 and became crown attorney in 1979 .

As a member of the Social Democrats , he ran in the 1983 and 1987 elections in the Kensington constituency , in which the Conservatives had a safe majority.

Goodhart took part in the merger of the Social Democratic Party with the Liberal Party and ran in 1988 for the Social and Liberal Democrats in the Kensington by-election in 1988, in which he again only finished third.

In the general election of 1992 he ran for the mandate in the constituency of Oxford West and Abingdon under the new party name of the Liberal Democrats . Goodhart cut the Conservatives' lead by 1,000 votes to 3,500, but remained in second place.

In 1989 Goodhart was knighted as a Knight Bachelor ("Sir") and as Baron Goodhart , of Youlbury in Oxfordshire , on October 23, 1997, he was promoted to life peer . In the House of Lords, he mainly appeared on legal issues as a spokesman for the Liberal Democrats. Goodhart temporarily acted as Shadow Lord Chancellor . On May 15, 2015, Goodhart voluntarily retired and left the House of Lords under the rules of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.

Goodhart also served as chairman of JUSTICE , the national organization of the International Commission of Jurists in the United Kingdom, and in 2002 he was elected Vice President of the ICJ. Goodhart was an honorary member of the National Secular Society .

Goodhart had three children with his wife, Celia.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=183566141
  2. ^ David Sexton: Immigration: why the public is right , London Evening Standard , March 28, 2013. See also nephew David Goodhart
  3. ↑ a b c d Trading places , The Times . January 30, 2007, p. 7. 
  4. ↑ Local lad. (Kensington by-election) . The Economist . July 9, 1988. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved on August 5, 2010.
  5. ↑ By-election results: 1987-92 (PDF; 118 kB) House of Commons Information Office . Retrieved August 5, 2010.
  6. ↑ a b Oxford West and Abingdon . guardian.co.uk . Archived from the original on June 15, 2009. Retrieved on August 5, 2010.
  7. ↑ Baron Goodhart . National Secular Society. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Goodhart, William, Baron Goodhart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goodhart, William Howard, Baron Goodhart; Goodhart of Youlbury, William Baron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and Attorney General
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1933
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2017