Desmond Plummer

Arthur Desmond Herne Plummer, Baron Plummer of St Marylebone (* May 25, 1914; † 2 October 2009) was a British politician of the Conservative Party.

Life and career

Plummer was the son of a state -approved Baugutachters from Bexhill -on-Sea. He attended Hurstpierpoint College and the College of Estate Management. He completed training as a lawyer, but followed his father into the profession as a publicly - appointed auctioneer and real estate broker. Later, he became director of various insurance companies and building societies.

During the Second World War Plummer served in the Royal Engineers, and in the context of demobilization, which was transferred to the home troops. In 1950 he was honored for his long service with the Territorial Decoration Medal and was a member of the Sports Committee of the Territorial Army by 1953 until 1979.

Plummer was elected in May 1952 in the District Council of Marylebone and 1958 was mayor of the district. It was erected in 1960 as a Conservative candidate for election to the London County Council in St. Marylebone and was re-elected unopposed. He moved in 1964 to the Greater London Council for the City of Westminster.

1966 Plummer was elected as leader of the opposition in the wake of Sir Percy Rugg, just one year before the election of the GLC. While Harold Wilson's Labour government was increasingly unpopular, he reached in 1967 a landslide victory. The GLC under the leadership of Plummer brought forward the sale of social housing under Horace Cutler, reaching in 1969 to operate from the government the authority to London Underground and other London Transport.

In 1970, the Conservatives were re-elected under Plummer, a few weeks before the general election, although Labour retained control of the school board for Inner London. Plummer was the only head of the GLC, who got a second term. He was knighted in 1971.

In the second term, the GLC embarked on a controversial course in relation to the transport. Plummer believed that the streets of London, built at a time before the invention of the car, for the increasingly growing traffic volumes are not suitable.

He therefore proposed to build an urban motorway. The GLC would buy after previous legal expropriation of houses. Although previous governments were shorter build highways, this was the first comprehensive policy in this direction. The first track that was built was the Westway from Paddington to Hammersmith, who had the destruction of thousands of homes and construction of a large overpass result. Residents of areas where the new highways were announced, declared their opposition clear. The Labour opposition undertook then to put the project plans shelved. This led in 1973 together with the difficulties of Edward Heath's Conservative government to deselection of Plummer and the Conservatives.

Plummer has held a number of important offices within the Conservative Party. In 1964 he has also been chairman of his party association. From 1967 to 1976 he was in the leadership of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, the Association of constituency organizations.

In 1974 he became chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board, the State Association to control the horse betting. In England, the Horserace Betting Levy Board shall ensure that the bookmaker branch according to their sales a share of the racing. In the same year Plummer joined by the chair of the group of Tories back the GLC. He was succeeded by Horace Cutler. Plummer stepped back from the 1976 GLC.

He led an active retirement by continuing his business career, a member of the Lloyd 's of London and Chairman of several building societies was. He was President of the Political Committee of the Carlton Club from 1979 to 1984. In 1981 he was appointed Life peer as Baron Plummer of St Marylebone, appointed in the City of Westminster.

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