Robin Hodgson, Baron Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

Robin Granville Hodgson, Baron Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, of Nash in the County of Shropshire CBE ( born April 25, 1942) is a British business leaders and politicians of the Conservative Party, which temporarily a Member of the House of Commons was, and since 2000 as a Life Peer Member the House of Lords.

Life

Manager and Member of Parliament House of Commons

After schooling Hodgson made ​​1960-1964 military service in the 4th Battalion of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry of the British Army and was recently promoted to lieutenant. He then took on activities in the private sector and was 1972-2003 Chairman of the Board, and the temporary Chief Executive Officer ( CEO) of the investment bank Granville Baird Group.

After a candidate in the general election on 28 February and on 10 October 1974 the Conservative Party without success in the constituency Walsall North for a seat in the House of Commons, he was at a by-election on November 4, 1974 in this constituency for the Members in the House of Commons and was elected to this until the election on 3 May 1979.

In 1979 he was named after his retirement from the House of CEO of the company Nasdim and has held this position until 1985, before he was then director of the Securities and Investment Authority between 1985 and 1989. At the same time he worked from 1980 to 1985 Member of the Council for the security industry.

He also took roles within the Conservative Party true, and was among others from 1985 to 1991 only Treasurer and then to 1994 Chairman of the Conservative Party in the West Midlands region. At the same time, he served from 1988 to 1998 as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Union of Conservative Associations ( National Union of Conservative Associations ) and from 1988 to 1996 as a member of the Authority for Industrial Development of the West Midlands. During this time Hodgson, 1992 Commander of the Order of the British Empire was, was between 1990 and 1992 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Walter Alexander plc, 1991-2002 Director of Administration for securities and futures markets ( Securities and Futures Authority ) as well as between 1992 and 2002 Director of Dominic Hunter plc.

At the political level, it was between 1995 and 1996 only Vice - President and subsequently from 1996 to 1998 Chairman of the National Union of Conservative Associations, before he between 1998 and 2000, both deputy chairman of the Conservative Party and Chairman of the National Assembly of the Territories ( National Conservative Convention ) was.

House of Lords member

Hodgson, who is between 1995 and 2001 Director of Community Hospital plc since 1995 and was director of the Staffordshire Building Society, was a Letters Patent dated 7 June 2000 as a life peer with the title Baron Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, of Nash in the County of Shropshire raised to the peerage. Shortly thereafter, place on 28 June 2000, his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords.

In the following years he was a trustee of Shrewsbury School Foundation and the St Peter's College, University of Oxford and is also a member of the Livery Company the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. Since 2000, Lord Hodgson is CEO of Rostrum Group and since 2002 the Nova Capital Group and at the same time since 2002 Member of the Supervisory Board of Marston plc, the former Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries plc.

In the House of Lords Lord Hodgson took over numerous leadership roles within the Group of the Tories, and was among other things, 2002-2006 opposition spokesman for home affairs and economic affairs and a member of the shadow cabinet of his party.

Thereafter he served between 2007 and 2012 as chairman of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations ( National Council for Voluntary Organisation ) and since 2008 Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the charities of the Armed Forces ( Armed Forces Charities Advisory Committee). In the meantime, he was from 2001 to 2012 also official assessor for the law on charities ( Charities Act ).