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'''Brian Stanley Mawhinney, Baron Mawhinney''' ] (born ] ])<ref name=BBC1002>{{cite web |title =Sir Brian Mawhinney | publisher = ] | date =] | url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2061231.stm | accessdate =2008-04-23 }}</ref> is a British ] politician. He was a member of the ] from 1994 until 1997 and a ] from 1979 until 2005.

==Early life==
Mawhinney was born in 1940 in ] and was educated at the ].<ref name=Guardian>{{cite news | title=Mawhinney, Brian |publisher=] |url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/parliament/0,,-3433,00.html |accessdate=2008-04-23}}</ref> He studied ] at ],<ref name=Guardian /> gaining an upper second class degree in ] and obtained a Ph.D. in radiation physics at the ] in London.<ref name=Guardian /> He worked as assistant professor of radiation research at the ] from 1968&ndash;70 and then returned to the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine as a lecturer from 1970&ndash;84.<ref name=Guardian />

==Political career==
Mawhinney was ] for ] from 1979 to 1997 and Member of Parliament for ] from 1997 to 2005.<ref>{{cite news |title=…with 27 new working peers… |publisher=] |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/14/nlords114.xml |accessdate=2008-04-23}}</ref> He was ] to ] from 1982 to 1983 and PPS to ] from 1984 to 1986.<ref name=Guardian /> He became a junior minister at the ] in 1986,<ref name=BBC1002 /> and then became Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office in 1990.<ref name=Guardian /> In 1992, he became Minister of State at the ] until 1994 when he entered the cabinet as ].<ref name=Guardian /> He served as ] and ] for two years from 1995 until the ].<ref name=BBC1002 /> He was appointed a ] in the dissolution honours list in 1997. He served as Shadow ] and spokesman for home, constitutional and legal affairs for a year under ] before returning to the back benches in June 1998.<ref name=BBC1002 /> He stepped down from the House of Commons in May 2005.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mawhinney to leave Parliament|date=] 2003|publisher=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3152112.stm|accessdate=21 December 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=End of Commons road for four MPs |date=]|publisher=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/england/4430979.stm|accessdate=2007-08-04}}</ref> On ] ] it was announced that he would be created a ],<ref>{{cite news|title=Full list of new life peers |date=]|publisher=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4544507.stm|accessdate=2007-08-04}}</ref> and on ] he was created '''Baron Mawhinney''', of Peterborough, in the County of ].<ref>{{cite news|title=Life baronies |date=]|publisher=The Times| url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/the_hitch/article552069.ece|accessdate=2007-08-04}}</ref>

==The Football League==
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==
Highly religious, Mawhinney is a leading member of the ] and was a member of the ] for five years.<ref name=BBC1002 />

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