Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree

Antony Harold Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree OBE PC ( born August 29, 1937 in England; † 25 March 2012) was a British politician ( Conservative Party ).

Career

After attending the Friends School Saffron Walden, he studied at Trinity College, Oxford University.

His political career began in Newton in 1974, when he was elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time deputies in the lower house (House of Commons ). There he represented the constituency until 1997 Braintree.

After the electoral victory of the Tories at the general election in May 1979, he was an Assistant Whip and thus Assistant to the Managing Director of the Parliamentary Group of the Conservative Party in the House. After that, he was 1981-1982 Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, and moved to the Ministry of Social Security after. At first he was Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State, following 1984-1986 Minister of State for Social Security and people with disabilities, most recently from 1986 to 1988 Minister of State for Health.

In 1988 he was appointed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for the first time in a cabinet. Following a cabinet reshuffle in 1989 he was appointed by Thatcher as Minister of Social Security and held that post under Thatcher's successor John Major to 1992.

In a cabinet reshuffle in 1992 he became Lord President of the Council and as such was at the same time to 1997, leader of the conservative majority party in the House ( Leader of the House of Commons ).

Newton. Officer also the Order of the British Empire was, was named after his retirement from the House of Commons on 31 October 1997 as Baron Newton of Braintree for Life Peer and thus also a member of the Upper House (House of Lords)