Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean
Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, of Drumlean in Stirling ( born October 16, 1954 in Montrose, Angus, Scotland ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party, who was among other things Scotland minister.
Life
After visiting the Arbroath High School Forsyth studied from 1972 to 1976 at the University of St Andrews and was active already at the time politically as president of the Conservative Association of the University of St Andrews 1973-1976, 1975-1977, as a member of the Executive Committee the National Union of conservative and Unionist associations ( National Union of conservative and Unionist associations ) and from 1976 to 1977 as chairman of the Federation of conservative students. He then worked in local politics and 1978-1983 Member of the City Council of Westminster.
In the general election on 9 June 1983, he 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 Stirling. During his membership of Parliament, he was 1986-1987 first Parliamentary Private Secretary to Foreign Minister Geoffrey Howe, before he then his first government post as " junior ministers " took over when he was appointed in Scotland Ministry for Parliamentary Under Secretary of State. During this time, he was from 1989 to 1990 and Chairman of the Scottish Conservative Party, the National Union of Conservative Party in Scotland.
In 1990 he was Minister of State in Scotland Ministry and was there until 1992 for health, education, social work and sport in charge before he first Minister of State for Employment and then from 1994 to 1995 at the Home Office, the Home Office was in port.
In a cabinet reshuffle, he was established in June 1995 by Prime Minister John Major to Scotland minister ( Secretary of State for Scotland ) and thus the successor to Ian Lang. The Office of the Minister of Scotland he held until the end of the term of office of majors for the lost general election of 1 May 1997. He himself suffered in these general election a personal electoral defeat and lost his constituency to his challenger of the Labour Party, Anne MacGuire. He lost 7.5 percentage points and 5,200 votes against the election of 1992.
He was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, of Drumlean in Stirling to the peerage in 1999 and has since been a member of the House of Lords. As such, he was between 1999 to 2000 a member of the Commission to strengthen the Parliament, and from 2005 to 2006 Chairman of the Commission for the tax reform.
In addition, he was from 2000 to 2003 a member of the development committee of the National Portrait Gallery and a member of the Board of Directors of J & J Denholm Ltd, a company of the Denholm Group, which is active in the area of shipping, logistics, seafood, industrial and oilfield services, the Bank NBNK Investments plc and Vice Chairman of the advisory and investment services provider Evercore Partners in the field of European investment banking. He is also a Board member of the think tank Centre for Policy Studies (CPS ).