David Heathcoat-Amory
David Philip Heathcoat -Amory ( born March 21, 1949) is a British politician of the Conservative Party, who represented the constituency of Wells nearly 27 years as a member of the House of Commons and, among other things Paymaster General was.
Life
Origin and professional activities
Heathcoat -Amory, son of Brigadier-General Roderick Heathcoat -Amory, comes from an influential politician and entrepreneur family, which was in 1874 awarded the dignity of baronet. His great-grandfather Sir John Heathcoat -Amory, 1st Baronet, was, as already John Heathcoat, whose maternal grandfather, a longtime member of the House of Commons for the constituency of Tiverton. Derick Heathcoat -Amory His uncle was also lower house MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer, among others.
He himself studied after the visit of Eton College at Balliol College and at Christ Church College, University of Oxford and, after graduating with a Master of Arts in Politics, Philosophy and Economics ( MAP ) 1974 accountant at the conglomerate British Electric Traction and later at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In addition, he was occasionally Fellow at the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Heathcoat -Amory 1980, who also worked as a farmer, Deputy Director of Finance, which specializes in the licensing and marketing of medical developments company BTG and remained employed there until 1983.
House of Commons Member of Parliament and government offices
In the general election on 9 June 1983, he was first elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party member of the House of Commons and represented there until the general election on 6 May 2010 the constituency of Wells.
During his long parliamentary membership, he was initially 1985-1987 Parliamentary private secretary to Norman Lamont, the Financial Secretary of the Treasury, as well as the connection of Interior Minister Douglas Hurd, before he was Whip of the Government Group of the Conservative Party 1988-1989.
In 1989 he recorded his first government post as " junior ministers " after he was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Ministry of Environment. After a subsequent use from 1990 to 1992 as Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State in Energierministerium he was again Whip of the Government Group, and also Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household and Vice-Chairman of the influential House Committee on Ways and Means ( Ways and Means ).
Heathcoat -Amory was followed from 1993 to 1994 Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Commonwealth of Nations, where he was responsible for Europe. After that, he was finally between 1994 and 1996 Paymaster General ( Paymaster General ) in the extended cabinet of Prime Minister John Major.
Opposition politicians and election defeat
After the electoral defeat of the Conservative Party in the general election of 1 May 1997 he was appointed to the formed the new party leader William Hague 's shadow cabinet of his party and was there first "shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, " and in connection 2000-2005 " Shadow Minister of Trade and Industry " under Hague's successor Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard, before he even briefly May-June 2005", shadow Minister for Work and Pensions " was.
After the election of David Cameron as chairman of the Conservative Party in November 2005, Heathcoat -Amory, who was temporarily a member of the British delegation to the European Convention and a member of the Europeans United for Democracy is, as backbenchers from the political limelight withdrew and was thereafter from 2005-2010 Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the so-called European Scrutiny Committee, a special committee of the House for review of regulations of the European Union in terms of their importance to British law and the preliminary decision on the treatment of such arrangements debates in the Parliament.
Although Heathcoat -Amory was able to improve its vote share by almost 700 votes from 23 071 to 23,760 votes in the general election on 6 May 2010, he lost his constituency to his liberal- democratic challenger Tessa Munt, who received 44 percent of the vote, while on his 42, 5 percent accounted for, so that he lost his House seat and retired from the House of Commons.