David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford

David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, PC ( born January 18, 1936) is a British politician of the Conservative Party, journalist and consultant.

He was Minister of Energy and Minister of Transport under Margaret Thatcher. After the 2010 parliamentary elections, he was until 2012 Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Together with William Hague, Sir George Young and Kenneth Clarke, he is one of the few ministers from the time the governments of 1979-1997 have still higher positions in the party.

Family

Howell is the son of Colonel Arthur Howard Eckford Howell, who served in the Royal Artillery and Beryl Stuart Bowater.

Life

He went to Eton College, then studied at King's College (Cambridge), where he graduated in 1959 with a Master of Arts (MA). He worked from 1959 to 1960 in the Exchequer, during this time he wrote the book Principles to Practice, and was then four years as a journalist for The Daily Telegraph. He ran unsuccessfully in the British general election, 1964. He was from 1964 to 1966 director of the Conservative Political Centre and wrote during this time the book The Conservative Opportunity.

Political career

Two years later, in 1966, he won the parliamentary seat for the constituency of Guildford in Surrey for the Conservative Party, he retained that seat up to the British general election, 1997. This year, on April 19, he was raised as Baron Howell of Guildford for Life Peer.

Howell was Junior Minister in the cabinet of Edward Heath's government 1970-1974, in the years 1970/71 was Lord Commissioner of Treasury and Parliamentary Stattssekretät in the Civil Service Department. He was also Unterstaatssketär at work and later in Northern Ireland Ministeriumt and in 1974 in the Department of Energy.

When Margaret Thatcher was elected in 1979, she made Howel to your Secretary of State for Energy and enabled him later in the Ministry of Transport. At this time he was writing book Freedom and Capital, published in 1981. In 1979 he was appointed to the Privy Council. In 1986 he published his next book Blind Victory: a study in income, wealth and power. In 1987 he became chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In 2001 him the Grand Cross of the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure was awarded.

From the 2010 election until the reshuffle of 2012 was Lord Howell, Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in David Cameron's government under William Hague as Foreign Minister.

Personal

Howell married in 1967 Cary Davina Wallace; they have three children.