William Waldegrave

William Waldegrave

William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill (* 15. August 1946 in Chewton Mendip , Bath , Somerset , England ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party , which from 1979 to 1997 the Constituency Bristol West as a member of the House of Commons represented and held several ministerial offices during Prime Minister John Major's tenure and is currently a member of the House of Lords . He is also Chairman of the British private bank Coutts .

Life

Member of the House of Commons and Minister

After visiting the Eton College studied Waldegrave law at Corpus Christi College of the University of Oxford and the Harvard University , and was after graduation 1975-1979 judge in the juvenile court for London's city center, the Inner London Juvenile Court . He was also a Fellow at All Souls College at the University of Oxford between 1977 and 1986 .

In the general election of May 3, 1979 , he was elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Bristol West until May 1, 1997 .

In 1981 he took over his first government office as “Junior Minister” when he was appointed Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Education and Science, before moving to the Ministry of the Environment, where he was first Parliamentary Undersecretary of State and then from 1985 to 1988 Minister of State. He was then Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1988 to 1990 , the British Department for Foreign Affairs and Affairs of the Commonwealth of Nations .

After Prime Minister Major took office as the successor to Margaret Thatcher , he became Secretary of State for Health in his cabinet in November 1990 . After a government reshuffle, he became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in April 1992 , before he was Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from July 1994 to July 1995. Most recently he was Chief Secretary to the Treasury from July 1995 until the end of Major's tenure in May 1997 .

In 1995, the so-called Scott Report made his role known, which he played as Minister of State in the State Department in the "Arms-to- Iraq Affair ". The government had failed to inform parliament about the relaxation of the guidelines on the sale of non-lethal equipment to Iraq.

Member of the House of Lords

In the general election of May 1, 1997 , which resulted in the end of the Tories government and the beginning of the Labor Party government of Tony Blair , he also suffered a personal loss to his Labor challenger Valerie Davey and divorced from the House of Commons.

In 1999 he was raised to the nobility as a Life Peer with the title Baron Waldegrave of North Hill , of Chewton Mendip in the County of Somerset and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since. Waldegrave, who is also an honorary member of the Tory Reform Group , was President of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee from 2000 to 2003.

He also resumed his work as a Fellow of All Souls College and was also Provost of Eton College.

He took further several directorships in companies of the private sector as in the private bank Coutts , Fleming and Family Partners Ltd , Henry Sotheran & Co Ltd , Waldegrave Farms Ltd and Biotech Growth Trust plc . He was also an advisor to the major bank UBS and trustee of Wellington Resettled Estate , the Strawberry Hill Trust , the South African Mandela Rhodes Foundation , the Cumberland Lodge near Windsor Castle as well as chairman of the Rhodes Foundation and chairman of the advisory committee of the Royal Mint .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the British Parliament (accessed December 26, 2011)
• William Waldegrave in Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You
• Entry in They Work For You

Bibliography

• Una McGovern (Ed.): Chambers Biographical Dictionary. 7th edition. Chambers, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 1563.