Ian Stewart, Baron Stewartby
Bernard Harold Ian Halley Stewart, Baron Stewartby, of Portmoak in the District of Perth and Kinross KT PC FRSE FSA RD FBA ( born August 10, 1935) is a British business leaders, numismatist and politician of the Conservative Party, for 18 years a Member of the House of Commons was and is a life peer member of the House of Lords since 1992.
Life
Military career development and lower house deputy
After schooling Stewart graduated from 1954-1956 training as a reserve officer in the Royal Naval Reserve and was recently promoted to Lieutenant Commander. After further training he was from 1959 to 1960 Broker at Seccombe Marshall & Campion, and later from 1965 to 1975 director of the British Numismatic Society.
After a candidate in the general election of June 18, 1970 at the constituency North Hammersmith for the Conservative Party for the first time without success for a seat in the House of Commons, he became in 1971 director of the private bank Brown, Shipley & Co., where he worked until 1983. 1972 Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve, he was awarded.
In the general election on February 28, 1974 Stewart was first elected as an MP in the House of Commons and took there first the constituency of Hitchin, before the electoral district of Hertfordshire North took after the election on 9 June 1983 to the lower house election on 9 April 1992. From 1977 to 1979 he was a member of the House Committee on Public expenditure and at the same time 1978-1979 spokesman for the opposition faction of the Conservative Party for the banking law.
In addition to his mandate in the House he was a member of the Council of Haileybury also active in local politics and between 1980 and 1995. In his constituency, Hertfordshire, he also became involved since 1974 as Vice President of the Child Protection Agency and since 1978 as Vice President of the St John Ambulance and was next to 1975-1992 and Vice - Chairman of the Committee of the Child Protection Agency in Westminster.
Junior Minister
After the success of the Conservative Party in the general election on May 3, 1979, the inauguration of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, he took his first government post and was until 1983 Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer Geoffrey Howe, as well as in the connection of Januar to October 1983 Parliamentary Under Secretary of Defense and there responsible for military procurement.
In October 1983, he returned to the Treasury (Treasury) and was there until 1987, Agriculture Secretary with special responsibility for monetary policy and financial institutions before it until 1988 as Minister of State for the Army back then worked in the Department of Defense. Last Stewart was 1988-1989 Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Minister. Most recently, he was during his membership of the House of Commons from 1991 to 1992 member of the Unterhausauszuschusses for public accounts.
During this time, 1986, he was Commander of the Order of Saint John and in 1989 a member of the Privy Council.
Business Manager and member of the House of Lords
After 1990 he was no longer in charge of Thatcher's successor, John Major, with a government official, he became increasingly functions in the private sector, where he. Between 1990 and 2005 Chairman of The Throgmorton Trust plc and at the same time from 1990 to 2007 director of Diploma plc
By Letters Patent of 20 July 1992 Stewart was the 1991 Knight Bachelor, and in 1992 Knight of the Order of Saint John and then on the additional name "Sir" led, after his retirement from the House of Commons as a life peer with the title Baron Stewartby, of Portmoak in the District of Perth and Kinross raised to the peerage. Shortly afterwards, was his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords.
In the following years he worked on in the private sector and, among other things, 1993-1995 Chairman of the Delian Lloyd's Investment Trust plc, also Vice Chairman of Standard Chartered plc ( 1993-2004 ) and of Amlin plc (1995 to 2006) and between 1995 and 2002 Director of Portman Building Society. During this time he served from 1993 to 1997 as Director of Financial Market Supervisory Authority Financial Services Authority ( FSA) in 1994 and was Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge.
Lord Stewartby, a recognized financial expert, was temporarily secretary of the Parliamentary Finance Committee of the Conservative Party from 2000 to 2005 and a Trustee of the Parliamentary pension funds. In addition, he was from 1996 to 2001 Chairman of the treasure valuation committee.
In addition, he was active in numerous organizations such as, whose member he has been Chairman of the Committee of the British Academy for the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles since 1967, for example, from 1993 to 2003. Since 2002 he has also been President of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust.
Lord Stewartby, Fellow of the British Academy (1981) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( 1986) is, since 2008, acts as an honorary trustee of the medieval coin collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.