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Norman Fowler

The Right Honourable
The Lord Fowler
Kt PC
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Lord Speaker
Assumed office
1 September 2016
Monarch Elizabeth II
Preceded by The Baroness D'Souza
Shadow Home Secretary
In office
2 June 1998 – 15 June 1999
Leader William Hague
Preceded by Brian Mawhinney
Succeeded by Ann Widdecombe
Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
In office
11 June 1997 – 1 June 1998
Leader William Hague
Preceded by The Lord Young of Cookham
Succeeded by Gillian Shephard
Chairman of the Conservative Party
In office
11 May 1992 – 15 July 1994
Leader John Major
Preceded by Chris Patten
Succeeded by Jeremy Hanley
Secretary of State for Employment
In office
13 June 1987 – 3 January 1990
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by David Young
Succeeded by Michael Howard
Secretary of State for Social Services
In office
14 September 1981 – 13 June 1987
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by Patrick Jenkin
Succeeded by John Moore
Secretary of State for Transport
Minister of State for Transport (1979-1981)
In office
4 May 1979 – 14 September 1981
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by Bill Rodgers
Succeeded by David Howell
Opposition Chief Spokesman on Transport
In office
15 January 1976 – 4 May 1979
Leader Margaret Thatcher
Succeeded by Bill Rodgers (Shadow Minister for Transport)
Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Services
In office
18 February 1975 – 15 January 1976
Leader Margaret Thatcher
Succeeded by Patrick Jenkin
Member of Parliament
for Sutton Coldfield
In office
28 February 1974 – 7 June 2001
Preceded by Geoffrey Lloyd
Succeeded by Andrew Mitchell
Member of Parliament
for Nottingham South
In office
18 June 1970 – 28 February 1974
Preceded by George Perry
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
6 July 2001
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1938-02-02) 2 February 1938 (age 79)
Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Political party Speaker
Other political
affiliations
Conservative (until 2016)
Alma mater Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Peter Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler Kt PC (born 2 February 1938) is a British politician who was a member of Margaret Thatcher's ministry. He is currently the Lord Speaker, having assumed office at the beginning of September 2016.

After serving as Shadow Minister of Transport, he was appointed Minister of Transport in 1979, being responsible for making seat belts compulsory. Later, as Secretary of State for Health and Social Services, he drew public attention to the dangers of AIDS. He resigned from the cabinet as Employment Secretary, and was knighted in 1990.

He was Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1992 to 1994, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997–98 and Shadow Home Secretary in 1998–99. In 2001, he was made a Conservative life peer as Baron Fowler.

The son of N. F. and Katherine Fowler, he was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford, in the county of Essex; after which he did National Service as a second lieutenant in the Essex Regiment. Whilst studying at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA Economics & Law 1961), he was Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association in Michaelmas 1960, in which term he entertained both the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Home Secretary (and de facto Deputy Prime Minister, although he did not hold the title until 1962) Rab Butler. He then became a journalist, and worked on The Times.


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