Geoffrey Tordoff, Baron Tordoff

Geoffrey Johnson Tordoff, Baron Tordoff, of Knutsford in the County of Cheshire ( born October 11, 1928) is a former British business leaders and politicians of the Liberal Party and now the Liberal Democrats, which is since 1981 member of the House of Lords and fourteen years Vice Chairman ( Deputy speaker) of the house of Lords was.

Life

Professional activities, candidates for the House and party chairman

After visiting the Manchester Grammar School graduated Tordoff studying at the University of Manchester and subsequently worked 1950-1983 as a manager in the marketing department of Shell Chemicals, and most recently in the public relations department of Royal Dutch Shell.

Tordoff ran for the Liberal Party in the general election of 15 October 1964 North constituency Which the first time without success for a parliamentary seat in the House of Commons. In the subsequent general election on March 31, 1966 and June 18, 1970, he competed again each time unsuccessfully for a seat in the House, and although both times in the constituency Knutsford.

Since the mid- 1970s, he took several party functions within the Liberal Party and was initially 1974-1976 Chairman of the Assembly Committee of the party and then to 1979, Chairman of the Liberal Party, until he was between 1980 and 1982 Chairman of the Party Committee for election campaigns and elections.

House of Lords member and deputy speaker of the upper house

In 1981, he was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Tordoff, of Knutsford in the County of Cheshire to the peerage and has been a member of the House of Lords.

Lord Tordoff, who was president of the Liberal Party 1983-1984 was during his many years of membership in the upper house, first from 1983 to 1984 and Deputy Whip and then to 1988, Chief Whip of the Liberal Party and thus Parliamentary Secretary of the faction of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords. After dissolution of the Liberal Party in 1988, he was Parliamentary between 1988 and 1994 Managing Director of the Liberal Democrats in the House and at the same time transport spokesman of his group.

In addition, he served from 1986 to 1992 as Honorary President of the British Youth Council (British Youth Council ) and was further between 1990 and 1994 Chairman of the Committee for the Middle East of the Refugee Council, the Asylum and Refugee Council of Great Britain.

In 1994, Lord Tordoff Deputy Speaker of the Upper House ( Deputy Speaker) and held this office for 14 years until 2008. During this time he was initially between 1994 and 2001 First Deputy Chairman and then from 2001 to 2002 Chairman of Committees (Chairman of Committee ) before he was between 2002 and 2008 Vice-Chairman of the Committees.

Since 2004, Lord Tordoff, who was from 1995 to 2002 a member of the Press Complaints Commission ( Press Complaints Commission, PCC ), Extra Lord in Waiting to HM The Queen.