Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton
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The Right Honourable The Lord Lang of Monkton PC DL |
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President of the Board of Trade Secretary of State for Trade & Industry |
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In office 5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997 |
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| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Michael Heseltine |
| Succeeded by | Margaret Beckett |
| Secretary of State for Scotland | |
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In office 28 November 1990 – 5 July 1995 |
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| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Malcolm Rifkind |
| Succeeded by | Michael Forsyth |
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Member of Parliament for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Galloway (1979-1983) |
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In office 3 May 1979 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | George Thompson |
| Succeeded by | Alasdair Morgan |
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| Born | 27 June 1940 |
| Alma mater | Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge |
Ian Bruce Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton PC (born 27 June 1940) is a British Conservative politician and Life Peer who served as the Member of Parliament for Galloway, and then Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, from 1979 to 1997.
On 29 September 1997 Lang was raised to the peerage. He has been an active member of the House of Lords and is currently the Chairman of the Constitution Committee, a post he took up in 2016, having previously served as Chair of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments from 2009 to 2014.
Lang was educated at Lathallan School, Rugby School and Sidney Sussex College of The University of Cambridge, where he was also a member of the Cambridge Footlights.
Lang first stood for Parliament for Central Ayrshire in 1970, but was unsuccessful. In the February 1974 general election he was defeated by Labour's James White contesting Glasgow Pollok.
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