Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman
Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman, of Dingley in the County of Northamptonshire PC ( born May 27, 1942, the Wirral, North West England, England peninsula ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party, who was among other things, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Life
After visiting the Whitgift School Freeman studied at Balliol College, University of Oxford, and during this time was 1964 president of the Conservative Association of University (Oxford University Conservative Association). After graduation, he worked as a chartered accountant at an investment bank.
After Freeman was running for a seat in the House of Commons at the general election in 1979 as a candidate of the Conservative Party unsuccessfully in the constituency of Don Valley, he was first elected in the general election of 1 May 1983 the House of Representatives and represented by 1 May 1997 Constituency Kettering.
Between 1984 and 1986 he was head of the finance department in the main office of the Conservative Party and took over after the first time a government official as a " junior minister" after the appointment as Parliamentary Under Secretary of Defense with responsibility for the armed forces. Subsequently, he was from 1988 to 1990 Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Health and subsequently Minister of State in the Ministry of Transport with responsibility for public transport, before he was from 1994 to 1995 Minister of State for military procurement in the Ministry of Defence.
After a cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed by Prime Minister John Major to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in June 1995 and was at the same time until the end of Major's term of office in May 1997, Minister for the Civil Service.
After retiring from the Cabinet and the Government after the election defeat of the Tories at the general election of 1 May 1997 he was appointed Life peer with the title of Baron Freeman, of Dingley in the County of Northamptonshire raised to the peerage, and has since been one of the House of Lords as a member. As such, he was from 1997 to 2001 Member of the Executive Board of the Association of Conservative Peers and Special Adviser to his party to put forward candidates.
In addition to his political activities took Freeman numerous positions in the private sector in defense, pharmaceutical and IT companies and was appointed Chairman of Thales Pension Trustees and Big DNA Ltd and a member of the Boards of the Thales SA France, Savile Group plc, Parity Group, Chemring Group plc and ITM Power plc. He also served as Chairman of the Advisory Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Thales UK and an adviser to RP & C International Ltd. and Global Energy Development plc. In addition, he was Chairman of the Carlton Club and the Trustees of Skill Force Development Ltd.