Richard Spring, Baron Risby

Richard John Grenville Spring, Baron Risby of Haverhill in the County of Suffolk (* September 24, 1946 in Cape Town) is a British politician of the Conservative Party, for 18 years a Member of the House of Commons was, and since 2010 as a life member of the peer House of Lords.

Life

Lower house deputy

After visiting the Rondebosch Boys' High School, he graduated from the University of Cape Town, and at Magdalen College, University of Oxford and then worked as a journalist and business manager. Most recently, he was vice president of financial services firm Merrill Lynch.

Spring, who has held various position within the Conservative Party in Westminster 1976-1987, was a candidate in the general election on 9 June 1983 the Conservative Party in the constituency of Ashton -Under- Lyne for the first time for a seat in the House of Commons, but was defeated. In 1990 he was chairman of the Conservative Party in Westminster. In the elections of 9 April 1992, he was elected a deputy in the lower house and initially represented the constituency of Bury St Edmunds and most recently since the general election on 1 May 1997 the constituency of West Suffolk. In the general election on 6 May 2010, he opted not to run again and retired from the House of Commons from.

In 1994 Spring, which was between 1993 and 1996 Vice - Chairman of the Industrial Fund of the Tories, his first government post and was until 1995 Parliamentary Private Secretary Patrick Mayhew, the then Minister of Northern Ireland. Then he was only Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Trade and Industry, Timothy Eggar, and then from 1996 to 1997 by Nicholas Soames and James Arbuthnot, who were Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence.

During this time, he was from 1995 to 1997 a member of the House Committee on Northern Ireland and at the same time between 1996 and 1997 for health, and in 1997 also of the Committee on deregulation.

Opposition politicians and upper house member

After the electoral defeat of the Tories at the general election on 1 May 1997 Spring has also held executive tasks in the opposition and was beginning spokesman for the Group of the Conservative Party for Culture, Media and Sport and then between 2000 and 2004 Opposition Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, before he of 2004-2005 shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in the shadow cabinet of his party was. Subsequently, he was from 2005 to 2010 Vice - Chairman of the Group of the Conservative Party between 2006 and 2007 as well as member of the House Committee on Internal Affairs.

After retiring from the House of Spring was raised by a Letters Patent from 24 December 2010 as a life peer with the title Baron Risby of Haverhill in the County of Suffolk to the peerage. Shortly thereafter, took place on January 11, 2011 his Introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords.