David Mellor

David John Mellor (born 12 March 1949 in Wareham, Dorset, England) PC QC is a British journalist and politician of the Conservative Party, the 1979-1997 Member of the House of Commons and among other things for a few months in 1992 Minister of National Heritage had.

Life

Studies, professional activity and lower house deputy

After visiting the Swanage Grammar School Mellor studied law at Christ 's College, University of Cambridge where he was temporarily President of the Cambridge University Conservative Association. During his studies he was a staff member of the House of Deputies Jeffrey Archer and worked as a barrister after graduation and the lawyer's approval in 1972. In 1987 he was appointed Attorney-General.

After he unsuccessfully ran for the lower house elections of October 1974 for a seat in the lower house in the constituency of West Bromwich East, he was elected in the general election on 3 May 1979 as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time a member of the House and took there first the constituency of Wandsworth Putney and then since the general election on June 9, 1983 to May 1, 1997 Putney constituency.

In 1981 he recorded his first government post as " junior ministers " to after he was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and in the following years, worked among others in the Home Office, the UK Home Office. Between 1986 and 1990 he served as Minister of State in various government departments active and last Minister of State for the Arts.

Minister and journalist

Following the appointment of Prime Minister John Major, he was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Secretary to the Treasury ) was appointed in November 1990 in the Cabinet. In a cabinet reshuffle after the general election in 1992 Mellor was Minister of National Heritage ( Secretary of State for the National Heritage ) in April 1992. However, this newly created ministry he headed just a few months to 24 September 1992, then was forced to resign because of an extramarital relationship with actress Antonia de Sancha, where he published this affair in a book.

After his constituency, he lost in the general election of 1 May 1997 to his challenger of the Labour Party and had to resign from the House of Commons, he was, until 1999 Chairman of the Football Task Force formed by the new Labour government under Tony Blair.

Subsequently, he was employed as a Radio 3 Culture and sports journalist for newspapers such as the Evening Standard, The Guardian, as well as People magazine and host of a football program on BBC Radio 5 Live, as well as programs of classical music at BBC Radio 2 and BBC. Furthermore, he presented music programs at the stations Classic FM and LBC radio. Mellor lives in St Katharine Docks, the former London docks area.