Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell
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The Right Honourable The Lord Crickhowell PC |
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| Secretary of State for Wales | |
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In office 4 May 1979 – 13 June 1987 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | John Morris |
| Succeeded by | Peter Walker |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Wales | |
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In office 18 February 1975 – 4 May 1979 |
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| Leader | Margaret Thatcher |
| Succeeded by | John Morris |
| Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire |
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In office 18 June 1970 – 11 June 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Desmond Donnelly |
| Succeeded by | Nicholas Bennett |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
25 February 1934 London, England, UK |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Roger Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell, PC (born 25 February 1934) is a British Conservative Party politician and a former Secretary of State for Wales.
Educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a director of William Brandt's insurance brokers and a director of National & Grindlays Bank Ltd. He left insurance to take Desmond Donnelly's old seat of Pembroke and served as Secretary of State for Wales in Margaret Thatcher's first and second administrations.
At the 1970 general election, he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, which he represented until his retirement at the 1987 general election. From 1975 to 1979, he was Opposition Spokesman for Welsh Affairs (in other words, the Shadow Secretary of State for Wales). When Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979, Edwards was appointed Secretary of State for Wales. He served in that position until 1987, when he was given a life peerage as Baron Crickhowell, of Pont Esgob in the Black Mountains and County of Powys.
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