David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford
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The Right Honourable The Lord Howell of Guildford PC |
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| Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office | |
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In office 14 May 2010 – 5 September 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Secretary of State for Transport | |
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In office 14 September 1981 – 11 June 1983 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Norman Fowler |
| Succeeded by | Tom King |
| Secretary of State for Energy | |
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In office 4 May 1979 – 14 September 1981 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Tony Benn |
| Succeeded by | Nigel Lawson |
| Member of Parliament for Guildford |
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In office 31 March 1966 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | George Nugent |
| Succeeded by | Nick St Aubyn |
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David Arthur Russell Howell 18 January 1936 London, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford PC (born 18 January 1936), is a British Conservative politician, journalist, and economic consultant. Having been successively Secretary of State for Energy and then for Transport under Margaret Thatcher, Howell has more recently been a Minister of State in the Foreign Office from the election in 2010 until the reshuffle of 2012. Along with William Hague, Sir George Young and Kenneth Clarke, he is one of the few Cabinet ministers from the 1979–97 governments who still holds high office in the party, being its deputy leader in the House of Lords. His daughter, Frances, is married to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Conservative MP George Osborne.
Howell is the son of Colonel Arthur Howard Eckford Howell, and grandson of Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Alfred Russell Howell), and his wife (married 9 April 1931) Beryl Stuart Bowater, daughter of Sir Frank Henry Bowater, 1st Baronet and Ethel Anita Fryar. Howell's father, an army officer with the Royal Artillery for many years lived at 5 Headfort Place, London. He was decorated with the awards of the Territorial Decoration (TD) and Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO and bar).
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