Patrick Cormack, Baron Cormack

Patrick Thomas Cormack, Baron Cormack, of Enville in the County of Staffordshire DL ( born May 18, 1939 in Grimsby ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party, which for almost 40 years a Member of the House of Commons was, and since 2010 as a Life Peer Member the House of Lords.

Life

Studies, teachers and unsuccessful House of candidatures

After visiting the St. James's Choir School and the Havelock School Cormack holds a degree in history at the University of Hull, completed his studies with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and took after work as a teacher at the St. James's Choir School on. During this time, he was from 1963 to 1966 Advisory Board Member of the Historical Association.

Already at the general election on 15 October 1964, he competed as a 25 -year-old for the Tories in the constituency Bolsover for the first time for a seat in the House of Commons, but failed to reach the Parliament. His second candidacy in the elections of March 31, 1966 in the constituency Grimsby was without success.

After his second election defeat, he became in 1966 Director of Education at Ross Ltd. and changed in 1967 as assistant principal at the Wrekin College in Wellington before he was 1969-1970 Head of History at Brewood Grammar School.

Lower house deputy

Cormack was first elected in the general election of 18 June 1970 as a candidate of the Conservative Party as a delegate in the House of Commons, and first represented the constituency of Cannock, then since the election of 28 February 1974 constituency Staffordshire South West, and most recently since the general election on 9 June 1983 South Staffordshire constituency. In the general election on 6 May 2010 he resigned after nearly 40 years of Parliament belonging to a reelection and retired from the House of Commons from.

Shortly after his first election to the House of 1970 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Social Security, and held this post until 1973. Cormack, who was a member of the House Committee on church affairs throughout his parliamentary membership 1970-2010, was engaged between 1974 and 1997 as the founder and chairman of the historical association Heritage in Danger, and at the same time 1979-1984 as a member of the Council for historic buildings.

Furthermore, he was between 1980 and 1995 Chairman of the Council for independent education and 1981-2004 Chairman of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in the National Archives.

1982 Cormack became a member of the Advisory Committee of the Lord Chancellor to authentic instruments and part of this body until 1987. Then from 1987 to 2001 member of the Advisory Committee of the Lord Chancellor for accommodation and work, from 1992 to 2000 during the time of the Yugoslav wars member of the Council for Peace in the Balkans and at the same time from 1995 to 2005 a member of the General Synod of the Church of England.

Unsuccessful candidates as House speaker and the House of Lords member

In the late 1990s took Cormack numerous leadership roles within the Group of the Conservative Party from 1997 to 2000 and was Deputy Leader of the House in the shadow cabinet of his party, and at the same time opposition spokesman for constitutional affairs. He also belonged from 1997 to 1998 as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Lord Chancellor for the modernization of the House, and was at the same time between 1997 and 2000 also member of the Joint Committee on Parliamentary privileges and 1997-1999 Member of the Executive Committee of the British Parliamentary Association of the Commonwealth of Nations ( Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, CPA).

2000 candidate Cormack, who was between 1999 and 2000 one of the Vice - Chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, from 2000 to 2003 whose treasurer and from 1999 to 2006 governor of the English-Speaking Union ( ESU), after the resignation of Betty Boothroyd first time for the office of Speaker of the House. However, he succumbed to the Scottish Labour MPs, Michael Martin, the then Speaker of the House of Commons was.

In 2001 he was a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights for a time and was also between 2001 and 2003 Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, from 2001 to 2010 the House of Commons Committee on Professional Conduct and also from 2001 to 2009 of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the unification of legislation.

Cormack, who was a member of the Commission of the House of Commons between 2002 to 2005 and served from 2005 to 2010 as chairman of the House for Northern Ireland and was at the same time a member of the House Committee on Cooperation.

After Michael Martin was forced to resign because of the scandal involving expense accounts of Members on 21 June 2009, Cormack applied again to the office of the House speaker. In the first round of voting on 22 June 2009, however, he reached only 13 votes and finished ninth among the ten candidates. For the House speaker finally his party colleague John Bercow was elected in the third ballot.

After retiring from the House of Cormack was raised by a Letters Patent of 18 December 2010 as the life peer with the title Baron Cormack, of Enville in the County of Staffordshire to the peerage. Shortly afterwards, was his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords.

Since 2011, Lord Cormack is also a Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire.