Douglas Hogg

Douglas Martin Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham QC ( born February 5, 1945 in the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea, London, England ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party, the over thirty years as a member of the House of Commons and, among others Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and food was.

Life

Hogg came from a well-known lawyer and political family and was the grandson of Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, who was both a two-time Lord Chancellor, Secretary of War and Lord President of the Council, as well as son of Quintin McGarel Hogg, among other things, the First Lord of the Admiralty and Lord Privy Seal, but also Lord President of the Council, and twice Lord Chancellor was.

He himself studied after the visit of Eton College Law at Christ Church College, University of Oxford and received in 1968, the lawyer admitted to the Bar at Lincoln 's Inn. He then worked as a barrister and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1990.

In the Lower House elections of 3 May 1979 Hogg was first elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party member of the House of Commons and represented there until 1 May 1997, the constituency of Grantham, before and after the general election of 1 May 1997 in the constituency of Sleaford North Hykeham was elected to the House of representatives and the House of Commons belonged to 6 May 2010. During his membership of Parliament, he was initially 1982-1983 Parliamentary Private Secretary Leon Brittan, the chief secretary to the Treasury, and then to 1984 Whip of the Conservative government faction.

In 1986 he recorded his first government post as " junior ministers " after he was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Home Office and was then from 1989 to 1990 Minister of State for Trade and Industry Ministry. After that, he was between 1990 and 1995 Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Commonwealth of Nations.

In a cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ) of Prime Minister John Major on 5 July 1995 and held that post until the end of the term majors on 1 May 1997. After the electoral defeat of the Tories at the general election on May 1, 1997, he was for a short time until June 17th 1997 the shadow cabinet of his party as " Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food " at.

After the death of his father he inherited Quintin Hogg McGarel on 12 October 2001 its title as Viscount Hailsham, on which he had developed in 1963 waived. As a result of the House of Lords Act 1999, hereditary seats in the House of Lords were abolished, he was not automatically a member of the Upper House by the inheritance of the title.

Most recently, he was during his membership in the House from April 2009 to May 2010 Member of the House Committee on Justice.