Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 5353
Biography
Electoral history
MP (Conservative) for Mid Oxon 1974-83, for Witney 1983-97
Parliamentary career
Opposition Spokesman for Europe 1976-79;
Minister of State:
Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1979-83,
Home Office 1983-84;
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1984-85;
Home Secretary 1985-89,
Foreign Secretary 1989-95
Lords career
Member, Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords 1999;
House of Lords Appointments Commission 2000-10
Party groups
Contested Conservative Party leadership November 1990;
Patron, Tory Reform Group
Councils, public bodies
Member, Constitutional Commission 1998-99;
High Steward, Westminster Abbey 1999-2011;
Chair, Archbishop of Canterbury's Review 2000-01
International bodies
Vice-President, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (UK Branch)
Political interests
Foreign affairs, constitutional affairs, criminal justice
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baron Hurd of Westwell, of Westwell in the County of Oxfordshire 1997
Register of Interests
2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
Author of sixteen published books
President, Montrose Strategic Consultancy, London
Chairman, Advisory Council, FIRST Magazine Group
5: Land and property
Property at Westwell, Oxfordshire, from which rental income is received
10: Non-financial interests (b)
Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford
10: Non-financial interests (d)
President, Prison Reform Trust
President, German-British Forum