Tim Boswell
Timothy Eric " Tim " Boswell, Baron Boswell of Aynho ( born December 2, 1942 in Brentwood, Essex ) is a British politician ( Conservative Party ). From 1987 until the general election in 2010 he was Member of Parliament for the constituency of Daventry and is a member of the House of Lords since 2010.
Life and career
Boswell, son of a farmer, attended Marlborough College and New College, where he earned a degree in classical antiquity science and a degree in Agricultural Economics.
In 1966, he joined the Conservative Research Department and became in 1974 head ( Head ) of the Economic Department (according Debretts 1970-1973, agricultural and economics consultant from 1966 to 1973 ). He stepped on to the general election in February 1974 in the constituency of Rugby, but lost with 6,154 votes difference from William Price ( Labour Party ). After the death of his father he took over its activities in agriculture.
He was elected in 1976 as Treasurer ( Treasurer ) of the Daventry Conservative Association and was its chairman from 1979 to 1983 ( Chairman ). In 1984, he was political adviser to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Michael Jopling for two years.
Membership in the House of Commons
After he had unsuccessfully competed in the general election in February 1974 for the constituency of Rugby, he was selected in the constituency of Daventry to resign after the incumbent Conservative MP and former Labour cabinet minister Reg Prentice announced his withdrawal. Boswell was at the general election in 1987 Conservative MP for Daventry with a majority of 19 690 votes, and held him in subsequent elections with a majority kompartablen. His parliamentary career began in 1987 as a member of the Agriculture Select Committee (until 1989 ). From 1988 to 1990 he was Chairman ( Chairman ) of the parlamentary Charity Law Reform Panel. From 1989 to 1990 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS ) with the State Secretary of Finance ( Financial Secretary to the Treasury ), Peter Lilley. In 1990 he became a member of the government of John Major as Deputy Whip of the Government ( Assistant Government Whip ), after the general election in 1992 he was promoted within the Whip 's Office and was Lord Commissioner to the Treasury.
In December 1992, Boswell was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State ( Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State ), Ministry of Education ( Department of Education ) appointed and transferred to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, to the dismissal of the Major government in the lower house election in 1997 in the same position.
In opposition, Boswell was the spokesman for the Ministry of Finance shortly after the 1997 election and later became spokesman for Trade and Industry under William Hague, before moving in 1999 to education and jobs, to the general election in 2001. Under the leadership of Iain Duncan Smith, in 2003 briefly spokesman for constitutional questions under Michael Howard and 2004 for work and Pensions, where he remained after the general election of 2005.
On 31 March 2006 Boswell announced his intention not to stand at the next general election, unless this would take place earlier than expected. In the general election of 2010, the constituency of Daventry was divided into two parts.
From 2007 to 2010 he was a member of the Special Committee ( Select Committee ) Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills / Science and Technology. Since 2007 he is member of the British delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council. In May 2009, he was named by the British newspaper Telegraph as one of the "saints" in the expenses scandal. After his retirement from the House of Commons under the seat remained conservative Chris Heaton- Harris.
Membership in the House of Lords
Boswell was appointed Life peer as Baron Boswell of Aynho, Aynho in the County of Northamptonshire of July 8, 2010. His official introduction to the House of Lords on July 19, 2010 Support for Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville and Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech. His inaugural address was delivered on 27 October 2010. Topics of political interest as he calls the agriculture, finance, the EU, education and equality. As states of interest he calls the countries of Europe.
Boswell is regularly present at meeting days.
More offices
In 1983, he was Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Leicester Northants and Rutland Counties Branch NFU. From 1966 to 1990 he had been a member ( Council) of the Perry Foundation for Agricultural Research from 1984 to 1990 he was president there.
Boswell was from 1988 to 1990 a member of the Agriculture and Food Research Council. Since 2010 he is Deputy Lieutenant of Northamptonshire. At the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff, he is an independent director (Independent Governor ) since 2007. He is director of the Foundation for Management Education. Boswell is Director ( Governor ) of the Tudor Hall School. He is the Chairman ( Chair ) of the Victoria County History Trust for Northamptonshire and the Friends of Torres Vedras. When Conservative and Unionist Agents ' Superannuation Fund and the Peterborough Cathedral Development and Preservation Trust is a member of the Trusteeship Council ( trustee ). As patron ( patron ) he is active in Daventry & South Northants Home-Start. The Advisory Group ( Advisory Group ) of the National Energy Action and the County Trust he has been Vice President ( VP ).
He also held several other positions in his party. From 2007 to 2010 he was a member of the Executive Committee in 1922. From 2009 to 2010 he was Acting Chairman ( Acting Chairman ) of Milton Keynes Conservatives.
Family
Boswell is married to Helen Rees Delahay. The couple has three daughters. In Boswell's constituency are Silverstone, the home of the British Grand Prix, Althorp, where Diana Spencer and her brother Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer lived as children, as well Thenford, the village where the villa of Michael Heseltine is.