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

Mawhinney, an Ulsterman, studied physics at the 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 at a university in Iowa followed, before returning to the Royal Free as a lecturer.

He was first elected to Parliament in 1979 from Peterborough. 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, when he became Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio. He served in this position until the Tories lost the 1997 elections. He had led the Tories' campaign. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in 1997. The Peterborough constituency had been split by the boundary changes and he followed a sizeable portion of his constituents to North West Cambridgeshire, the safer of the new seats. He served as Shadow Home Secretary for a year under William Hague.

Highly religious, Mawhinney is a leading member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship and was a member of the General Synod for five years. In 2003, he was appointed Chairman of the Football League.

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.

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


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