Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 4181
Fax: 020 7219 6388
templemorrisp@parliament.uk
Biography
Electoral history
Contested (Conservative) Newport 1964 and 1966, and Norwood Lambeth 1970 general elections. MP for Leominster February 1974-2001 (Conservative February 1974 to October 1997, Independent October 1997 to June 1998, Labour October 1998-2001)
Parliamentary career
PPS to Norman Fowler as Minister of Transport 1979
Party groups
Chair, Cambridge University Conservative Association 1961;
Society of Conservative Lawyers:
Member, executive committee 1968-71, 1990-97,
Chair 1995-97
Councils, public bodies
Member, governing council, Malvern College 1978-2002;
Chevalier du Tastevin (Chat. de Vougeot) 1988-;
Chair, Lords and Commons Solicitors Group 1992-97;
President, Iran Society Council 1995-2009;
Member, advisory council, British Institute of Persian Studies 1997-2009;
Jurade De St Emilion 1999-;
Chair, British-Iranian Chamber of Commerce 2002-04;
President, St Catharine's College, Cambridge Society 2004;
Member, Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on National Records and Archives 2008-09
International bodies
Executive British Branch of Inter-Parliamentary Union:
Member 1977-97,
Chair 1982-85;
Member, Parliamentary Delegation to United Nations 1980, 1984 (leader);
Vice-chair, GB-USSR Association 1985-93;
Hon. Vice-President, United Nations Association 1987-2005;
British-Irish Parliamentary Body:
Founding Co-chair 1990-97,
Member 1997-2005;
Vice-chair, GB-Russia and Eastern Europe Centre 1993-98;
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association:
Member, executive 1994-98,
Vice-chair 1996
Political interests
Foreign affairs, Irish affairs, European Union, constitutional and legal affairs
Countries of interest
Iran, Middle East, Netherlands
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baron Temple-Morris, of Llandaff in the County of South Glamorgan and of Leominister in the County of Herefordshire 2001
Register of Interests
2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
Special Adviser, Ashford Holdings SA (legal and general advice to international construction industry insurance group)
Consultant Solicitor, Moon Beever Solicitors (standard legal consultancy agreement)