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==The Football League== ==The Football League==
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In 2003, he was appointed Chairman of ],<ref>{{cite news|title=Mawhinney handed top post|date=]|publisher=BBC Sport|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/2587671.stm|accessdate=2007-08-04}}</ref> and in 2004 oversaw a re-organisation of the league structure, renaming the former Division One as the Football League Championship.


==Personal life== ==Personal life==

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Mawhinney, PC
In office
11 June 1997 – 11 April 1998
LeaderWilliam Hague
Preceded byJack Straw
Succeeded byNorman Fowler
Chairman of the Conservative Party
In office
5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997
Prime MinisterJohn Major
Preceded byJeremy Hanley
Succeeded byCecil Parkinson
Secretary of State for Transport
In office
20 July 1994 – 5 July 1995
Preceded byJohn MacGregor
Succeeded bySir George Young, 6th Baronet
Personal details
Born (1940-07-26) July 26, 1940 (age 84)
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Political partyConservative

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 was born in 1940 in Belfast and was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. He studied physics at Queen's University of Belfast, gaining an upper second class degree in 1963 and obtained a Ph.D. in radiation physics at the Royal Free Hospital in London. He worked as assistant professor of radiation research at the University of Iowa from 1968–70 and then returned to the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine as a lecturer from 1970–84.

Political career

Mawhinney was Member of Parliament for Peterborough from 1979 to 1997 and Member of Parliament for North West Cambridgeshire from 1997 to 2005. He was PPS to John Wakeham from 1982 to 1983 and PPS to Tom King from 1984 to 1986. He became a junior minister at the Northern Ireland Office in 1986, and then became Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office in 1990. In 1992, he became Minister of State at the Department of Health until 1994 when he entered the cabinet as Secretary of State for Transport. He served as Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio for two years from 1995 until the 1997 election. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the dissolution honours list in 1997. He served as Shadow Home Secretary and spokesman for home, constitutional and legal affairs for a year under William Hague before returning to the back benches in June 1998. 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

Is corrupt

Personal life

He has sex with young boys because he is a nonce He kept his daughter locked up in a secret room He killedMaddie Mcann He's a god bothering knob

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byMichael Ward Member of Parliament for Peterborough
19791997
Succeeded byHelen Clark
Preceded bynew constituency Member of Parliament for North West Cambridgeshire
19972005
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

  1. ^ "Sir Brian Mawhinney". BBC News. 2002-10-18. Retrieved 2008-04-23. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ "Mawhinney, Brian". Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  3. "…with 27 new working peers…". Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  4. "Mawhinney to leave Parliament In November 1995 supporters of a group campaigning on behalf of asylum seekers in Britain (The Movement for Justice) threw orange paint on Mawhinney". BBC News. 30 September 2003. Retrieved 21 December 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); line feed character in |title= at position 30 (help)
  5. "End of Commons road for four MPs". BBC News. 2005-04-10. Retrieved 2007-08-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. "Full list of new life peers". BBC News. 2005-05-13. Retrieved 2007-08-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. "Life baronies". The Times. 2005-08-06. Retrieved 2007-08-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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