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	==The Football League==		==The Football League==
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	==Personal life==		==Personal life==

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The Right Honourable The Lord Mawhinney, PC

In office 11 June 1997 – 11 April 1998
Leader	William Hague
Preceded by	Jack Straw
Succeeded by	Norman Fowler
Chairman of the Conservative Party
In office 5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Jeremy Hanley
Succeeded by	Cecil Parkinson
Secretary of State for Transport
In office 20 July 1994 – 5 July 1995
Preceded by	John MacGregor
Succeeded by	Sir George Young, 6th Baronet

Personal details
Born	(1940-07-26) July 26, 1940 (age 84) Belfast, Northern Ireland
Political party	Conservative

Brian Stanley Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney PC (born 26 July 1940) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was a member of the Cabinet from 1994 until 1997 and a Member of Parliament from 1979 until 2005.

Early life

Mawhinney, from Northern Ireland, went to school at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and studied physics at Queen's University of Belfast, gaining an upper second class degree in 1963. He obtained a Ph.D. in radiation physics at the Royal Free Hospital in London. A post as assistant professor of radiation research from 1968-70 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa followed, before returning to the Royal Free as a lecturer.

Member of Parliament

He was elected to Parliament in 1979 from Peterborough.

In government

He was a junior minister in the Northern Ireland Office from 1986 to 1992, then became Minister of State at the Department of Health until 1994. He then entered the cabinet as Secretary of State for Transport until 1995.

He then became Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio. A role which he held until the Conservatives lost the 1997 election. He had led the Conservatives' disastrous campaign in this election, which had culminated in the party having its lowest percentage share of the popular vote in 165 years. The Peterborough constituency had been split by boundary changes and he followed a sizeable portion of his constituents to North West Cambridgeshire, the safer of the new seats. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the dissolution honours list in 1997.

Shadow Cabinet

He served as Shadow Home Secretary for a year under William Hague before returning to the back benches in June 1998.

Backbenches, retirement and peerage

He stepped down from the House of Commons in May 2005. On 13 May 2005 it was announced that he would be created a life peer, and on 24 June he was created Baron Mawhinney, of Peterborough, in the County of Cambridgeshire.

The Football League

In 2003, he was appointed Chairman of The Football League, and in 2004 oversaw a re-organisation of the league structure, renaming the former Division One as the Football League Championship.

Personal life

Highly religious, Mawhinney is a leading member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship and was a member of the General Synod for five years.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byMichael Ward	Member of Parliament for Peterborough 1979–1997	Succeeded byHelen Clark
Preceded bynew constituency	Member of Parliament for North West Cambridgeshire 1997–2005	Succeeded byShailesh Vara
Political offices
Preceded byJohn MacGregor	Secretary of State for Transport 1994-1995	Succeeded byGeorge Young
Preceded byJeremy Hanley	Chairman of the Conservative Party 1995-1997	Succeeded byLord Parkinson
Preceded byJack Straw	Shadow Home Secretary 1997-1998	Succeeded byNorman Fowler

References

"Sir Brian Mawhinney". BBC News. 18 October 2002. Retrieved 21 December 2007. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
"Mawhinney to leave Parliament". BBC News. 30 September 2003. Retrieved 21 December 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

"End of Commons road for four MPs". BBC News. 2005-04-10. Retrieved 2007-08-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
"Full list of new life peers". BBC News. 2005-05-13. Retrieved 2007-08-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
"Life baronies". The Times. 2005-08-06. Retrieved 2007-08-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
"Mawhinney handed top post". BBC Sport. 2002-12-19. Retrieved 2007-08-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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