Trevor Arthur Smith, Baron Smith of Clifton

Trevor Arthur Smith, Baron Smith of Clifton, of Mountsandel in the County of Londonderry, Kt ( born June 14, 1937) is a British political scientist, university teacher and politician of the Liberal Democrats, who is a life peer member of the House of Lords since 1997.

Life

Studies, unsuccessful House candidate and university teachers

After schooling Smith holds a degree in political science and was once completed 1958-1959 first teacher, before he then until 1960 a part-time Assistant was Lecturer at the University of Exeter. In the meantime, he ran unsuccessfully in the general election on 8 October 1959 Lewisham West constituency for a parliamentary seat in the House of Commons. After a subsequent activity from 1960 to 1962 as a research associate at the Acton Society Trust, he was between 1962-1967 Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Hull.

Subsequently, he began teaching at Queen Mary College ( QMC ) of the University of London and was there 1967-1983 Lecturer or later Senior Lecturer in Political Science. He was also an associate in 1969 as a visiting professor at California State University, Los Angeles, worked and served 1972-1985 as Head of the Department of Political Science, and also from 1979 to 1982 as Dean of Social Studies at the QMC. Smith, who has held a professorship at the QMC 1983-1991, was between 1985 and 1987 only per - principal, then Senior Pro- principal, and finally from 1989 to 1991 Senior Vice - principal of Queen Mary College. Between 1975 and 2006 he was active as a director of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, and was in this period from 1987 to 1999 its chairman.

During this time he was also chairman of the 1987 Conference of University Rectors in Ireland. Furthermore, Smith engaged in the British Association for Political Studies ( Political Studies Assoc ) and was there from 1988 to 1989 the chairman, then. Between 1989 and 1991 and Vice President from 1991 to 1993 and President since 1993 has been vice president of the association, in turn,

Offices in institutions and in the private sector

He also belonged 1979-1984 on the Board of Sir John Cass Redcoat School as a member, and from 1985 to 1992 and the Regents of the University of Haifa and was between 1988 and 1993 also a member of the Board of Directors of the Bell Educational Trust.

In addition to teaching at the QMC, he also held various positions in the private sector and was a board member of several companies such as Job Ownership Ltd ( 1978-1985 ), New Society Ltd. (1986 to 1988), Statesman and Nation Publishing Co Ltd ( 1988-1990 ) and Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (1990 to 1995). Furthermore, he was also active for the protection of patients and was between 1987 and 1989 only member and then to 1991 vice-president of health administration of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and at the same time from 1988 to 1997 Vice President of Patient Association of Great Britain.

Between 1991 and 1999 he was Vice- Chancellor of the University of Ulster and at the same time Vice President of the Institute for staatsbürgerschaftliche studies. He was also in this period from 1995 to 1999 President of the Belfast Civic Trust and between 1995 and 1996 Member of the Board of the International Association of Universities (IAU ) and then from 1996 to 1999 member of the board of A Taste of Ulster. He is also co-editor since 1995, the scientific journal Government and Opposition and was the UK Socrates - Council 1993-1999 Member, and most recently from 1996 to 1999 its chairman.

House of Lords member

By Letters Patent of 4 November 1997, Smith was, the Knight Bachelor in 1996 and from then on the additional name "Sir" led, as a life peer charged with the title Baron Smith of Clifton, of Mountsandel in the County of Londonderry to the peerage. Shortly afterwards, was his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the upper house he belongs to the Group of the Liberal Democrats.

Early in his House of Lords membership from 1999 to 2000 he was a member of the House of Lords Committee on Science and Technology belonging Unterausausschuss for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and then from 2000 to 2010 spokesman for the Liberal Democrat Group for Northern Ireland. He was also in this period 2000-2011 a member of the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Assembly.

Lord Smith, who until 2002 was also a member of the board of health administration from North Yorkshire from 2000, 2001 also belonged to the House of Lords Committee on Legal Affairs and the EU institutions as a member and was also from 2001 to 2002 Chairman of the House of Lords Committee on animals in scientific procedures. In addition, he was between 2004 and 2006 Member of the Upper House Committee for communication and at the same time from 2005 to 2008 the House of Lords income for Constitutional Affairs. Between 2006 and 2008 he was also a member of the Subcommittee on interests of the House of Lords from 2007 to 2010 and the Group's spokesperson of the Liberal Democrats for Constitutional Affairs.

In addition, he was awarded from 2008 to 2009 Member of the Upper House Ad- hoc Committee on the so-called Barnett formula, with a public function in the parts of the UK. Since 2010 he is a member of the upper house of Economics and was also from 2007 to 2011 Director of Democratic Audit Ltd..

Honors and Awards

Lord Smith has won several awards and is an honorary Doctor of Laws ( Hon. LL.D. ), University of Dublin ( 1992), the University of Hull (1993 ), the National University of Ireland (1996) and Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL ) of the University of Alabama (1998) and Doctor of Letters ( Hon D.Litt. ) of the University of Ulster ( 2002). Furthermore, it was established in 1994 an honorary member of the Senate of the University of Augsburg and since 2003 Honorary Fellow of Mary College ( QMC ) of the University of London.

In addition, she is a member or fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2001 and of the Royal Historical Society (1986 ), the CIMGt (1992 ), the Royal Society of Arts and the Institute of Continuing Professional Development.