David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford
David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, PC, (born January 18, 1936) is a British Conservative politician, journalist, and economic consultant. His daughter Frances is married to the Conservative MP George Osborne.
Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, after five years as a journalist he unsuccessfully contested the constituency of Dudley in the 1964 General Election. Two years later he won the seat of Guildford in Surrey, a position he retained until retiring at the 1997 General Election. Later in this year, he was made a life peer as Baron Howell of Guildford, of Penton Mewsey in the County of Hampshire.
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.
He is credited with having coined the term 'privatisation'.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom (1801–present) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by George Richard Hodges Nugent |
Member of Parliament for
Guildford 1966–1997 |
Succeeded by Nick St Aubyn |
| Political offices | ||
| 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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