Lord Freeman
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The Right Honourable The Lord Freeman PC |
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| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
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In office 26 June 1995 – 2 May 1997 |
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| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | David Hunt |
| Succeeded by | David Clark |
| Minister of State for Defence Procurement | |
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In office 20 July 1994 – 26 June 1995 |
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| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Jonathan Aitken |
| Succeeded by | James Arbuthnot |
| Minister for Public Transport | |
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In office 28 November 1990 – 20 July 1994 |
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| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Office Created |
| Succeeded by | Office Dissolved |
| Minister of State for Transport | |
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In office 4 May 1990 – 28 November 1990 |
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| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Michael Portillo |
| Succeeded by | Ivon Moore-Brabazon |
| Member of Parliament for Kettering |
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In office 9 June 1983 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | William Homewood |
| Succeeded by | Phil Sawford |
| Personal details | |
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27 May 1942 Wirral, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Roger Norman Freeman, Baron Freeman, PC (born 27 May 1942), is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major from 1995 to 1997. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Kettering from 1983 to 1997, and was made a life peer in 1997.
Freeman was born in the Wirral, and educated at Whitgift School, Croydon, and Balliol College, Oxford. When he was at Oxford, he was the President of the Oxford University Conservative Association in Hilary Term 1964. Before entering Parliament, he was a Chartered Accountant working for an investment bank.
After an unsuccessful attempt to be elected as MP for Don Valley in 1979, Freeman was elected as MP for Kettering in 1983. Before joining the Cabinet, he served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Armed Forces (1986–88), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health (1988–90), and Minister for Public Transport (1990–1995) ranking as Minister of State. In that post he was responsible for steering through the House of Commons the Railways Bill, providing for the privatisation of British Rail and enacted as the Railways Act 1993.
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