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| 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 | ||
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| 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.
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- "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.
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See also
- List of Northern Ireland Members of the House of Lords
- List of Northern Ireland members of the Privy Council
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