Monroe Palmer, Baron Palmer of Childs Hill

Monroe Edward Palmer, Baron Palmer of Childs Hill in the London Borough of Barnet OBE ( born November 30, 1938) is a British politician of the Liberal Party and later the Liberal Democrats, which is since 2011 member of the House of Lords.

Life

Palmer was working as a certified accountant and became partner of the tax consulting firm Silver Altman.

The mid-1970s he began his political involvement with the Liberal Party and was between 1977 and 1983 whose treasurer. In the general election of May 3, 1979, he ran for the Liberal Democrats in the constituency of Hendon South for the first time without success for a parliamentary seat in the House of Commons. Palmer, the 1981 Officer of the Order of the British Empire, applied later in the general election of 9 June 1983 and on 11 June 1987 on the Liberal Party in the constituency of Hastings and Rye also unsuccessfully for a seat in the House. The mid-1980s he began his involvement in local politics and became effective from 1986 to 1994 member of the Council of the London Borough of Barnet. Addition was 1987-2010 chairman of the Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel, whose vice president, he is since 2010.

Most recently, he was a candidate in the elections of 9 April 1992 and on 1 May 1997 for the Liberal Democrats in the constituency of Hastings and Rye, but missed again each time a place in the House of Commons. Since 1998, he is again a member of the Council of the London Borough of Barnet and there since 2010 Chairman of the Audit Committee. In addition, he served between 2008 and 2009 as treasurer of the Liberal Democrats from London.

Palmer was raised by a Letters Patent dated 17 January 2011 as the life peer with the title Baron Palmer of Childs Hill in the London Borough of Barnet to the peerage. Shortly afterwards, was his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords.