Brian Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney
Brian Stanley Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney of Peterborough ( born July 26, 1940 in Belfast) is a British politician.
Biography
Mawhinney studied post-school at Queen's University of Belfast, the University of Michigan and the University of London and was subsequently from 1968 to 1970 as an Assistant Professor of Radiation Research at the University of Iowa operates. After his return to Britain he was in 1970 Lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and practiced this activity until 1984.
His political career began when he in 1979 as a candidate of the Conservative Party as a member of the lower house (House of Commons ) was chosen, in which he the constituency of Peterborough and then to 2005 the constituency Cambridgeshire North West represented until 1997.
In 1986, he was Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Northern Ireland in the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In the reign of Thatcher's successor, John Major, he was subsequently held in 1990 Minister of State in the Ministry of Northern Ireland and held this office until 1992. Between 1994 and 1995 he finally was Transport Minister in the Cabinet Major.
Subsequently, he was from 1995 to 1997 Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Conservative Party. After that, he was Minister of the Interior until 1998 in the shadow cabinet of the Conservatives.
In 2003, he became President of the Football League, the substructure of the top division, the Premier League is autonomous in English professional football.
After his retirement from Parliament he was raised on 24 June 2005 as a life peer in the peerage with the title " Baron Mawhinney of Peterborough ."