Earl of Crawford and Balcarres

Contact details

Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 5353

Biography

Electoral history

MP (Conservative) for Hertford 1955-74, for Welwyn and Hatfield March-October 1974. Contested Welwyn and Hatfield October 1974 general election

Parliamentary career

PPS to Henry Brooke: as Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1955-56, as Minister of Housing and Local Government 1956-59; Principal Opposition Frontbench Spokesperson for Health and Social Security 1967-70; Minister of State: Defence 1970-72, Ministry of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 1972-74

Lords career

First entered House of Lords 1975

Councils, public bodies

President, Rural District Council Association for England and Wales 1959-65; Chair, National Association for Mental Health 1963-70; DL, Fife 1976-2002; Chair, Historic Buildings Council for Scotland 1976-83; First Commissioner of the Crown Estate 1980-85; Chair: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland 1985-95, Board of the National Library of Scotland 1991-2000

Name, style and title

Created a life peer as Baron Balniel, of Pitcorthie in the County of Fife 1974

Register of Interests

10: Non-financial interests (e)

Trustee, Balcarres Heritage Trust Limited (charity)