Sources
Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
Submit a site - Become an editor
Wikipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Are you an expert in this subject? Join the discussion and share your knowledge at Wikipedia.org.
Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood, DL, usually called Richard Inglewood (born 31st July 1951) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Cumbria and Lancashire North from 1989 to 1994, and for North West England from 1999 to 2004.
Inglewood is the eldest son of former Conservative Member of Parliament William Fletcher-Vane and his wife Mary née Proby. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1975. He married Cressida Pemberton-Pigott in 1986. They have one son, Henry William Frederick Fletcher-Vane born in 1990, and two daughters.
At the 1983 general election, he stood as the Conservative candidate in the safe Labour constituency of Houghton and Washington, where he finished third with 24% of the votes.
At the European Parliament election, 1984 he stood unsuccessfully in the Durham constituency, but at 1989 European election he was elected as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Cumbria and Lancashire North. He lost his seat the 1994 election, but at the European Parliament election, 1999 he was elected for the new North West England constitituency. He did not contest the 2004 election.
He inherited his title from his father in 1989, the same year he was first elected to the European Parliament. He remained a member of the House of Lords after House of Lords Act 1999 after his election by fellow hereditary peers. He was a government whip in the Lords from 1994-95, serving as Deputy Chief Whip in from January to July 1995.. He was then appointed as a junior minister in the Department of National Heritage, serving until the Conservatives lost office at the 1997 general election. He has been a Deputy Lieutenant of Cumbria since 1993.
In 2006 Inglewood suggested eating grey squirrels as a method of preserving the native red squirrel.[1]
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by The Lord Annaly |
Lord-in-Waiting 1994–1995 |
Succeeded by The Earl of Lindsay |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by William Fletcher-Vane |
Baron Inglewood 1989 – present |
Incumbent |
 |
This article about a Member of the European Parliament from the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
This biography of a baron in the peerage of the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Categories: 1951 births | Living people | Old Etonians | British barristers | Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge | Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom | Conservative Party Lords-in-Waiting | Members of the European Parliament from the United Kingdom | Deputy Lieutenants of Cumbria | British MEP stubs | Peerage of the United Kingdom baron stubs