Patrick Mayhew, Baron Mayhew of Twysden
Patrick Barnabas Burke Mayhew, Baron Mayhew of Twysden, of Kilndown in the County of Kent, PC DL ( born September 11, 1929 in Cookham, Berkshire ) is a British lawyer and politician of the Conservative Party, both the Solicitor General and Attorney General and was between 1992 and 1997 the Office of the Northern Ireland Minister held in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major.
Life
Lawyer and Member of Parliament House of Commons
After visiting the Turnbridge School Mayhew studied law at Balliol College, University of Oxford and worked as a barrister after completing his military service at the 4th and 7th Regiment of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and the lawyer's admission to the Bar of the Middle Temple and was in 1972 to the Attorney-General (Queen 's Counsel ) appointed. At times, he was also a member of the General Council of the Bar Association Allenglischen.
After he had applied at the general election in 1970 without success in the constituency of Camberwell, Dulwich a seat in the House of Commons, he was first elected in the general election of 28 February 1974 as a candidate of the Conservative Party in the House of Commons and represented there until May 1, 1997 constituency Royal Tunbridge Wells or since the general election of 9 June 1983 the renamed in Tunbridge Wells constituency.
Ascent to the Northern Ireland Minister
In 1979 he took his first government post as " junior ministers " after he was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Ministry of Employment and thereafter was between 1981 and 1983 Minister of State at the Home Office, the UK Home Office. In 1983, his appointment as Solicitor General, and received at the same time he was appointed a Knight Bachelor and thus connected the additional name sir. Following 1987 he was Attorney General and held that post until 1992.
In a cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister John Major appointed him on 10 April 1992 for Northern Ireland Minister ( Secretary of State for Northern Ireland ) and thus the successor of Peter Brooke. This office he held until the end of majors term due to the electoral defeat of the Tories at the general election on 1 May 1997. As Northern Ireland minister, he strove determined by a balance between the interests of the unionist and nationalist interests to resolve the Northern Ireland conflict. With its more than five-year term Mayhew is still the Northern Ireland Minister with the longest tenure since the creation of the office in March 1972.
Member of the Upper House
After retiring from the House, he was raised in 1997 as a life peer with the title of Baron Mayhew of Twysden, of Kilndown in the County of Kent to the peerage and became a member of the House of Lords. During his membership he was there between 1998 and 2006 member of the Executive of the Association of Conservative Peers.
In addition, since 1997, he serves as Chairman of the West Kent College of Further Education and was between 1999 and 2007 and president of the National Fruit Show. In addition, he was between 1999 and 2008 Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister attending to business, and between 2000 and 2009 President of the Council of the Boy Scouts of Kent and between 2000 and 2007 Chairman of the Council of the Diocese of Rochester Cathedral.
He was also appointed Deputy Lieutenant (DL ) of Kent in 2001 and is also involved in other functions of the traditional county of Kent for example as Director of Support Kent Schools Ltd, a enterprises established in 1998 to support and promote educational standards in schools in Kent and Kent Ambassadsor as to promote the interests of the county.