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| The Right Honourable The Lord Howell of Guildford PC |
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| In office 14 September 1981 – 11 June 1983 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
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| Preceded by | Norman Fowler |
| Succeeded by | Tom King |
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| In office 4 May 1979 – 14 September 1981 |
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| Preceded by | Tony Benn |
| Succeeded by | Nigel Lawson |
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| Born | 18 January 1936 London, UK |
| Political party | Conservative |
David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, PC (born 18 January 1936) is a British Conservative politician, journalist, and economic consultant. His daughter Frances is married to the Conservative MP George Osborne.
Howell, who covered Energy and Transport under Margaret Thatcher, is, along with William Hague and Kenneth Clarke, one of the few Cabinet ministers from the 1979-1997 governments to still hold high office in the party, being its deputy leader in the House of Lords.
Early life
Educated at Eton he then served in the 2nd Btn Coldstream Guards between 1954-56 prior to going up to King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1959. He worked in HM Treasury from 1959-60 and then spent five years as a journalist on the Daily Telegraph before he unsuccessfully contested the constituency of Dudley in the 1964 General Election.
Member of Parliament
Two years later he won the seat of Guildford in Surrey, a position he retained until retiring at the 1997 General Election.
Howell, a junior minister in the Edward Heath Government (1970-1974), served as the Parliamentary Secretary, and played a key role in the establishment of the Central Policy Review Staff, a "central capability" policy unit based in the Cabinet Office.
When Margaret Thatcher was elected in 1979, she made Howell her first Secretary of State for Energy and then moved him to Transport in the reshuffle of September 1981. In 1987 he became chairman of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs.
In 1997, he was made a life peer as Baron Howell of Guildford, of Penton Mewsey in the County of Hampshire.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by David Howell
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| Preceded by George Nugent |
Member of Parliament for Guildford 1966–1997 |
Succeeded by Nick St Aubyn |
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| Preceded by Tony Benn |
Secretary of State for Energy 1979–1981 |
Succeeded by Nigel Lawson |
| Preceded by Norman Fowler |
Secretary of State for Transport 1981–1983 |
Succeeded by Tom King |
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